| Title: |
Demonstration Platform for Smart Camera |
| Category: |
Industry |
| Intellectual Property: |
Student team negotiates Memorandum of Understanding with business |
| Year: |
2009 |
| Semester: |
Fall |
| Sponsor Name: |
Alternative Vision Corporation |
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| Sponsor URL: |
http://www.alt-vision.com |
| Sponsor Information: |
Alternative Vision Corporation (AVC) is a distributor of optoelectronic product lines located in Tucson. AVC is owned and managed by Dave Gilblom, who has taught both ENGR 102 and ENGR 498 in previous years. One of the major product lines sold by AVC includes several models of smart cameras and image analyzers from Tattile srl in Italy, which are used for industrial machine vision. Alex Gilblom, a recent graduate of the UA Engineering Managment program, manages this product line.
Both Dave and Alex will be available to support the project. |
| ITAR Restriction: |
No |
| Scope of work: |
In support of sales of its product lines, AVC displays its products at industrial trade shows. These displays need to be simple, reliable and versatile.
For demonstration of the Smart Camera product line, we need a tabletop device to present patterns that the camera can analyze. These would include shapes that can be measured, objects in complex assemblies that can be detected as absent or present, structures that present various levels of brightness to be detected and characters and bar codes to be read.
The device must be controlled by a laptop computer through an Ethernet port so that the description of the object being presented is known by the computer. At least 5 different objects in each of the categories must be presented and the user must be able to tell the computer when to present each object.
The objects themselves can be real items presented mechanically, photographs of real items presented accurately, synthesized objects or any other reasonable set object set that effectively show smart camera operation.
The device must be compact, to fit into a shipping case supplied by AVC, rugged, to withstand shipment and rough treatment, versatile, to permit changing of the object set at a later date, and easy to set up to minimize required training. It must operate from a single low voltage DC supply.
The team must supply one completed working model of the device including all hardware and software. The team will need to learn how to program the smart camera, which AVC will provide, to demonstrate that the device can be used for successful demonstrations.
The team must provide a full set of operating and modification instrustions for the device.
The team must provide a full set of engineering drawings to permit duplication of the device.
The team must provide a full set of well-documented source code for all custom software.
The team must manage the program using some recognized program management technique and toolset.
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| Project summary: |
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| Disciplines: |
Mechanical Engineering (1)
Computer Engineering (1)
Electrical Engineering (1)
Engineering Management (1)
Optical Sciences and Engineering (1) |
| Skills: |
Design and assembly of the physical device
Design and documentation of driver software
Design and documentation of application software
Design and construction of an illuminator
Application of industrial design for appearance
Comprehensive program management
Careful development and execution of testing |
| Additional resources: |
Smart camera hardware
Smart camera software development tools
Advice on the trade show environment
Computer hardware for system test |
| Key Contact Name: |
David Gilblom |
| Key Contact Email: |
dave@alt-vision.com |
| Key Contact Phone: |
520-615-4073 |
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