Vision systems can be very light sensitive, which is sometimes not immediately obvious. Cast a shadow across the parts and the vision system may get lost. Find someone who does a lot of vision and you will find that they know a lot about lighting and light sheilding. Vision works best in a controlled light environment.
It might be easier to orient the wood pieces so they are less than some width - say 8 or 12" and they travel in a line. Put air nozzles over the width then then turn the air on and off when wood is present below the jets. A high pressure blower would probably be more energy efficient than using 90 psi compressed air. The other thing.. "blowing dust" and "vision" might not be all that compatible. Dave On 8/18/2014 1:46 PM, Todd Zuercher wrote: > I've had a problem proposed to me. Any ideas or suggestions? > > A series of randomly sized wooden pieces (uniform thickness) placed randomly > on a slow conveyor. Each piece has 1 to 4 small pockets milled in them. I > would like to automate a method of blowing out the dust left from milling the > pockets. How hard would it be to detect the location of these pockets, > position an air nozzle over the pocket and clean them with a short air blast > as they are carried down the conveyor. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
