reflectCONTROL Automotive enables the fully automatic inspection of painted car bodies. These robotic systems enable the detection, three-dimensional measurement and classification of typical paint defects.
Impressing with high precision and repeatability, the reflectCONTROL systems can be combined with automatic processing and marking systems. This is how reflectCONTROL Automotive enables a fully automatic process from paint defect inspection and evaluation to automatic post-processing.
Superior technology with unsurpassed detection rate
With reflectCONTROL Automotive, car manufacturers achieve a detection rate of over 98.5 % - always reproducible, regardless of the body color and the performance of an auditor.
Due to the high positional accuracy of the defects, the latter are detected and located precisely which enables subsequent, automatic post-processing, e.g., robot grinding.
The inspection system achieves outstanding area coverage and detects defects up to <1 mm from the edges. It also measures design edges and is flexible enough to allow easy adaption to the opening of movable components such as doors and flaps.
The unique 3D reconstruction feature allows for each defect to be assigned characteristics such as height, depth and volume. The data acquired is stored in an XML file and is available to the user at any time. In addition, the data can be read into the user's quality systems.
Integrated appearance measurement without additional hardware
The appearance is evaluated from the captured images - without additional hardware. The non-contact evaluation impresses with its high repeatability and is fully integrated. Any number of measurement positions can be defined for the appearance evaluation, which corresponds to a full-surface measurement - for any number of vehicles.
Integrated 6D offset correction
The reflectCONTROL inspection systems have an integrated offset correction that compensates for positional tolerances.
They calculate fully automatically the position of the car body in the inspection station. Consequently, the measurement position of the sensors is adapted accordingly which enables a fast, precise and highly repeatable measurement.
Easy teach-in of new car body types
The user can directly teach-in new car body types using the simulation tool which enables path planning under consideration of the required cycle times. Due to the robot-based inspection, new vehicle types can be quickly implemented.
AI-based classification
For AI-based classification, Micro-Epsilon offers a tool that can be trained with defect data by the user. The more data is taught, the more information is available for the optimization of the defect classes.
Automatic set-up of all car body colors
Furthermore, the innovative reflectCONTROL systems offer a feature for automatic color calibration. This is particularly advantageous for individual paints and new model ranges.
After the production department has transmitted a new color code, the system automatically sets up the parameters and assigns them to the new color code.
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