Optimal Design of Flexible Manufacturing System Based on Optical Measurement Principle

The material recognition and size measuring cell is very important for the development and practicability of flexible manufacturing system (FMS). However, the existing FMS mostly recognize the two-dimensional shape of the workpiece, measure the one- dimensional shape of the finishing product. This greatly limits the performance of FMS. In this paper, these cells have been optimally designed to identify and measure the three-dimensional shape of the workpiece based on the optical measurement principle. The method has the advantage at robust recognition rate and high recognition quality.