Measurement of surface roughness is one of the quality control processes, usually carried out off line. Contact type surface roughness measurement method is commonly used in quality control. The processes consume lot of time with human interaction. In order to reduce or to eliminate non value added time, effective quality inspection tool and automation of the processes has to be utilized. An attempt has been made to automate the process with integration of vision camera in capturing the image of the component surface. The image process technique has the advantage of analyzing the single captured image for multiple area measurement. Hence, the in-line quality control of each component surface roughness measurement is ensured. The automation process involves component movement, image capturing, image processing, and decision making, using sensors, actuators and microcontroller. The proposed in-line quality control of surface roughness with vision system has been successfully developed. The designed automated system has fulfilled the objectives in respect of the scope of the present work.
Vision system in quality control automation