Scorpion Newsletter February 2004

At Electrolux Motor in Sarpsborg, Norway, Scorpion is working together with a Rexroth Bosch Scara Robot. The system is verifying the gap of a chainsaw sword with a precision of 0.01 mm. More than 400 measurements are performed on each sword. Each year 1.3 million swords are automatically inspected.

One cycle consists of the following operations : Pick Sword, Present side one to Scorpion, Present side two to Scorpion, Sort swords: Defects are placed on left hand side - Accepted swords are placed on the right hand side of the robot. 

Video of the system in action - 1.2 MByte mpg-format

Contact : Thor Vollset- thor@tordivel.com - + 47 23 15 87 00

Improved image quality with Image Averaging

The new improved DirectX driver, available in release 2.5.3.126, in Scorpion supports Image Averaging. This is an easy and efficient way to improve the image quality and thus the system performance of a vision system. The table below shows how image averaging works - see how pixel noise, grey area, disappears as averaging increases.

Image averaging works with both color and monochrome images and requires the object to be fixed under the camera.  With a frame rate of 15 images/second eight images are averaged with a capture time of 600 ms. The camera noise is reduced to a couple of pixel values often down from fifteen to twenty pixel values.

Version 2.5.3.126 is available at: http://www.tordivel.no/scorpion - To get access, register at: Scorpion Download

Firewire Camera Winner January 2004

We are proud to announce the following winners of a Unibrain Fire-I Camera and a Scorpion Vision Software T-Shirt:

• Ketil Haugvaldstad, Laerdal Medical AS, Norway
• Matthew Knott, Electrox, United Kingdom
• Tony Pietala, Orbis , Finland

To join the contest register at : http://www.scorpion.no/default.asp?xml=119&id=f8048&sublevel=f8116

Scorpion Support - 24 hours a day - 365 days a year

For questions about using Scorpion, check out the FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions.

Do you have an inspection task? - submit a description of what you want to do and preferably a set of sample images to us. We will then do an assessment - give you some advice and maybe provide a skeleton solution using Scorpion. If you already have Scorpion installed, you can run this profile on your own computer.

To download Scorpion, example profiles, documentation, drivers etc. register at : Scorpion Download

We are committed to give you the best on-line support available.

Editor : Thor Vollset - thor@tordivel.com - + 47 23 15 87 00

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