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The video on the left shows an automated production line designed and built by Decuna for a telecommunications equipment manufacturer. The assembly line is completely automated and integrated with a robot. The robot feeds a machine and unloads components, to be used in further operations
One of the projects developed integrates a robot equipped with a pneumatic gripper with two computer vision systems
- the first one corrects position offsets in the plates to be feed in the machine
- the second one controls with a laser beam the thickness of the plates gripped by the robot, so that only one is introduced in the machine.
Decuna developed a system with applied computer vision to check if the grinding operation was performed satisfactorily or not in the gear cages of the halfshafts.
The system has to be able to detect this in less that two seconds, because of strict operation cycle requirements. Nevertheless, the system could meet customer requirements.

As a remark, the circlip is the closing part with a gear in the halfshaft axis
The system is also able to detect longitudinal displacements of the assembled parts in the halfshaft.