Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Machine vision rocks!

Here’s an interesting application story: Prosilica cameras are hard at work in South Africa, measuring the size of rock fragments coming out of the crusher. This blog article, Machine-Vision Rock Solid in Harsh Mining Environments gives details of both the application and the environment. Personally, I can’t think of a worse place to put a vision system than a hot and dusty rock-crushing plant.

The Lynxx Optical Particle Analyzer was developed by a company called “Stone Three,” and if you go to their web site you’ll find some screenshots (follow that link then click the thumbnails on the right of your screen,) that illustrate what it does.

Unfortunately no pictures of the camera and light setup, so if anyone from Stone Three is reading this …

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