Adept AdeptSight User Guide - Manual (Page 236)

Vision Tools Summary Table
Function Tool Use/function/description See also
Inspection Tools Inspection tools are commonly used in vision appli-
cations to inspect objects and parts, typically found by
a Locator tool. Inspection tools rely on the analysis of
pixel information.
Blob Analyzer Identifies blobs, and returns various
results for each blob.
Caliper Identifies one or more edge pairs and
measures distances between the two
edges within each pair.
Arc Caliper Identifies one or more edge pairs on
an arc-shaped or circular area and
measures distances between the two
edges within each pair.
Edge Locator Identifies an edge or a set of edges
that meet user-defined criteria.
Arc Edge Loca-
tor Identifies an edge or a set of edges in
an arc-shaped or circular area.
Pattern Locator Identifies instances of a greyscale pat-
tern.
Filter Tools Filter tools specify criteria for limiting
which instances will be processed.
These criteria include physical appear-
ance (including color) and proximity of
the instances to each other.
Inspection Tool Analyzes the results of other tools
based on a configuration of inspection
filters.
Color Matching Filters and analyzes areas of specified
color, or color ranges in color images.
Gripper Clear-
ance Analyzes results of histograms to
determine which parts can safely be
picked.
Calculation Tools
Calculated
Frame Calculates a frame based on a spec-
ified calculation mode.
AdeptSight User's Guide, Version 3.2.x, Updated: 8/23/2012
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