Practical Guide to Machine Vision Software: An Introduction with LabVIEW

19Student Projects

Several selected student projects are presented. These tasks are used as final year end test projects for undergraduate students in Soonchunhyang University, South Korea. To be able to use the machine vision concepts learned from this book, we encourage readers to choose at least one team-based student project. The project may be selected from this chapter or self-selected by students. For better evaluations of the suggested projects, screen captures of the student reports are included here. LabVIEW block diagrams are not included in this section. There can be a lot of different approaches to implement the projects and creative programing is always recommended!

Project 1: Noncontact Motion Measurement and Its Analysis

As seen in Figure 19.1, an object is in pendulum motion. The motion is to be measured and analyzed in real time via image analysis. The trajectory of the object is plotted on graph. Also, the overlay on the object in the image display can be used for motion measurement verification. As an example, the period of pendulum motion (T) can be calculated from the measured motion. From the period T, calculate the gravity constant g to confirm that g is about 9.81 m/s at the sea level. Note that the pendulum motion is one of the examples for noncontact motion measurement. You can extend this concept to other noncontact motion measurement applications.

(Hint: Color pattern matching, pattern matching, tracking method)

Project 2: Intelligent Surveillance ...