CAPABILITIES

• Building Machine Vision Systems for Industrial Applications.
• Developing Indigenous Machine Vision software.
• Handling Applied and Academic research in Vision.
• Handling Sponsored Projects for various agencies-DRDL, AICTE, & Industries.

WORKDONE

Auto Align Phase I :Developed a Machine Vision System to evaluate Shell misalignment.

• Sanctioned Amount: Rs. 20.70 Lakhs
• Project Commenced on Dec1999
• Project Completed on Dec 2002
• Research Centre Imarat, Hyderabad

AICTE MODROB: Vision Systems Laboratory

• Sanctioned Amount: Rs. 8.00 Lakhs
• Amount Spent: Rs. 13.62 Lakhs.
• Date of commencement: 19.04.2002
• Date of Completion: 19.05.2004
• Duration of the Project: Two Years

Auto Align Phase II :To develop a Machine Vision System to evaluate Shell misalignment .

• Sanctioned Amount: Rs. 14.50 Lakhs

Remnant Sheet Metal Project :To develop a Machine Vision System to acquire the images of remnant sheets.

• Amada Soft, Chennai

SPONSORED PROJECT

• Developing a set of Machine Vision experiments for European Union Cross Cultural Programme  on “Virtual Instrumentation on Robotics and Telematics”.
• Repeatability Analysis of Robot using Vision
• Wall following robot

Partners

• University of Wurzberg, West Germany,
• University of Madrid, Spain,
• Anna University, Chennai,
• Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai.(CSE, ECE &Mechanical Departments)

WORKSHOP ORGANISED

• Workshop on Machine Vision during 19 & 20 Oct. 2001 @ TCE., Sponsored by M/s. National Instruments, Bangalore and M/s. Online Solutions Chennai
• Workshop on World Class Manufacturing during 16 & 17 Aug.2002 @ TCE Key Resource : Dr.Sheik Meeran University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
• First National Workshop on Computer Vision, Graphics & Image Processing - WVGIP 2002 during 15-16 Feb.2002 @ TCE, Jointly with IUPRAI, IIT Delhi, ISI Kolkatta and ECE Dept., of TCE
• Second National Workshop on Computer Vision Graphics & Image Processing - WCVGIP 2004
• during 14-15 Feb 2004 @ MITS Gwalior, M.P, Jointly with IUPRAI, IIT Delhi and ECE Dept., of TCE
• Summer school on Advances in visual object recognition and retrieval jointly with ECE department & IUPRAI, 4-8, July, 2011.

CONFERENCE

• 5th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP – 2006) during 13th -16th December 2006 @ TCE, jointly with IUPRAI, IIT Delhi and ECE Dept., of TCE

INTERFACE WITH INDUSTRIES

• Research Centre Imarat, Hyderabad (DRDL).
• National Instruments, Bangalore.
• TVS Motor Company, Hosur
• Siemens, Bangalore
• APNA Technology Solutions, Bangalore
• Sundaram Fasteners, Madurai.
• AMADA Soft India, Chennai

INFRASTRUCTURE

Frame Grabber

• PC Vision Plus Frame Grabber with 4 MB onboard memory

Cameras

• Two nos. of 2/3” Progressive Scan Cameras
• 6mm Micro Camera

Optics

• Standard Lens Kit
• Distortion less Macro lens Kit
• Telecentric lens 55 mm,
• 2/3” Close focus Zoom lens 18-108 mm
• Variable Magnification CCD Lens 12.5-75mm
• Varifocal lens and Filters - Red/Green/Blue

Illumination Systems

• Fiber Optic Illuminator
• LED Ring Light

Test equipment

• Focal length Finder
• Depth of Field Target
• Grid Distortion target
• IEEE Target
• Resolution Target for Field & Contrast
• Star Target
• Precision Ronchi Rulings Glass slides
• Concentric Square Target

Test equipment

• Image Analysis Micrometer
• Opal Glass with cross line Target
• Camera copy stands
• XY Metric stage

Infrastructure (Softwares)

• Sherlock 32 Machine Vision Software
• Runtime License for MV tools software
• NI IMAQ Vision Software
• OLIVE Software

ACADEMIC RESEARCH

• Ph.D work on “Analysing the effect of operating parameters on the accuracy of camera calibration”
• P.G. Thesis works on
  • Error analysis in camera calibration
  • Evaluation of calibration methods
  • GA for camera calibration
  • Camera calibration applications
  • Camera calibration accuracy studies with DOE

• U.G. project works on
  • Machine vision systems