National Instruments CVS-1450 compact vision system gives you the flexibility, integration, and ruggedness for all of your inspection, alignment, gauging, and identification applications. Combining a high-performance processor, three FireWire ports, and digital I/O options, NI CVS-1450 systems are equipped to handle virtually any inspection task. CVS-1450 systems are designed for extreme operating temperatures common in manufacturing environments. No longer are you confined to the limited image processing capability, sensor size, and sensor speed of traditional smart cameras.
Configurable and Programmable Software
With the National Instruments comprehensive machine vision software, you no longer need to make a trade-off between ease-of-use and the power and flexibility of a programming language. National Instruments Vision Builder for Automated Inspection software simplifies the development process by replacing programming complexity with an interactive development environment. There are defined inspection functions, region-of-interest tools, Ethernet I/O communication tools, operator interface, and so on. Vision Builder for Automated Inspection is designed to solve gauging, part present/not present, alignment, and optical character recognition applications.
If you need the power and flexibility of a full application development environment, combine the NI CVS-1450 with National Instruments LabVIEW. With LabVIEW, you develop your own custom image processing algorithms, optimize your image processing application for speed, optimize memory usage, develop a custom user interface, and extend the I/O capabilities to PXI and Compact FieldPoint. To bridge from a configuration environment for fast development to an easy-to-use programming environment such as LabVIEW, Vision Builder for Automated Inspection generates LabVIEW code so that you can customize and optimize your inspection algorithms to meet the requirements of the most complex applications.
Multicamera Inspection
The CVS-1454 provides a low-cost way to inspect from several angles. With three FireWire ports, you can connect three cameras to the compact vision system with ease. Each camera shares a portion of the 400 Mb/s bandwidth.
External Device Control
The CVS-1454 has 29 digital I/O lines with built-in functionality for communicating with external devices, such as reading quadrature encoder inputs, generating strobe pulses, and writing to or reading from digital lines. Using these signals, you can dynamically control your lighting or cameras, synchronize with a conveyor belt, or communicate with relays that control solenoids and other actuators. Digital inputs and outputs are compatible with both 24 V and TTL-signaling levels.
Real-Time Display
Using the VGA output, you can see the product under inspection in real time, as well as pass/fail and inspection data. All of the overlays are user definable; with LabVIEW you can change the overlays programmatically and create custom user displays.
