Automated quality inspection in assembly lines through low-cost vision system (VISION)

The aim of the project is to develop a low-cost, high-performing vision system for automated quality inspections in assembly lines based on cheap hardware and state-of-the art machine learning algorithms for real-time image processing. The motivation behind the project is to enable a massive use of automated quality inspections within the Swedish production industry in order to reduce, or even eliminate, quality defects in manual assembly processes. Besides increased quality, a driving factor behind the project is to lower production costs through avoid handling rejections and being able to replace today’s manned quality inspection stations with automated inspections along the production line, which does also enable shorter lead times.

Vinnova dnr. 2018-01592