Visual Pick and Place

Suggested by Brian Jones <bdj23@cam.ac.uk>

We have a pick and place robot for assembly of circuit boards, which in principle could operate fully automated by extending the open source OpenPnP software. More automation will involve use of machine vision to correctly identify parts - for example checking barcodes when tapes of parts are lined up for assembly, and then visually confirming that the right part has gone into the right place on the board being assembled.