Designing of industrial illuminators for vision measurement systems.

The article presents a method of designing an industrial illuminator for surface lighting for vision control and measuring systems. The first part of the article is devoted to the discussion of surface lighting methods using various types of industrial illuminators. Types of illuminators and vision system configuration enabling surface imaging are discussed. Then the method of designing the illuminator specialized for the selected inspection task in DIALux evo software is presented. As part of the project, an iterative design method is presented, individual stages of the project are discussed, and results obtained at individual stages are presented. The summary presents the light design, the light field and its homogeneity in relation to the adopted design assumptions.