A method for assisting with the positioning of a drill bit for boring a component, which includes capturing images of a first component which has notable points, of calculating a digital representation from these images, of superposing the digital representation thus calculated and a digital design representation of the component, of evaluating the distances of the centers of bores to be created with respect to the notable points, and of positioning a drill bit with the aid of a camera and of the evaluated distances. The method continues in the same way for the other components to be assembled.

An automated guidance system for a coordinated movement machine includes a camera and a processor. The camera is mounted to a movable component of the coordinated movement machine. The processor is configured to visually recognize individual workpieces among a plurality of similarly shaped workpieces using a program running on the processor. The processor is further configured to determine x, y and z and Rx, Ry and Rz of the movable component with respect to each recognized workpiece among the plurality of recognized workpieces, and to move the movable component of the coordinated movement machine after determining x, y and z and Rx, Ry and Rz of the movable component.

A processing apparatus with vision-based measurement includes a central control unit and a workpiece transporting unit, a vision-based measurement unit, a processing quality prediction unit, and a processing unit that are respectively connected to the central control unit electrically. The workpiece transporting unit is controlled by the central control unit to transport the workpiece to the vision-based measurement unit to be measured. The data obtained by the vision-based measurement unit from measuring the workpiece is provided to the processing quality prediction unit for conducting quality prediction. The processing quality prediction unit implements a virtual processing quality prediction method to establish a quality prediction model, wherein the workpiece transporting unit is utilized to assist the processes of establishing or modifying the model. The vision-based measurement unit can optically take photograph of the workpiece rapidly and convert it into a dimension data so as to facilitate the processing device to enhance the measuring efficiency.

An automated guidance system for a coordinated movement machine includes a camera and a processor. The camera is mounted to a movable component of the coordinated movement machine. The processor is configured to visually recognize individual workpieces among a plurality of similarly shaped workpieces using a program running on the processor. The processor is further configured to determine x, y and z and Rx, Ry and Rz of the movable component with respect to each recognized workpiece among the plurality of recognized workpieces, and to move the movable component of the coordinated movement machine after determining x, y and z and Rx, Ry and Rz of the movable component.

A robot system which is inexpensive and can easily measure a position of a target point. The system stores feature quantities of an image of a target mark included in an image acquired as reference data when the target mark is placed at a known first target mark position at the robot coordinate system and stores the first target mark position with respect to an arm tip as the position of the tool center point. The system compares the feature quantities obtained from the image acquired when the target mark is arranged at a second target mark position and the feature quantities of the reference data to make the arm tip move and calculates the second target mark position at the robot coordinate system based on a second robot position corresponding to the position of the arm tip after movement and the position of the tool center point.

A robot system which is inexpensive and can easily measure a position of a target point. The system stores feature quantities of an image of a target mark included in an image acquired as reference data when the target mark is placed at a known first target mark position at the robot coordinate system and stores the first target mark position with respect to an arm tip as the position of the tool center point. The system compares the feature quantities obtained from the image acquired when the target mark is arranged at a second target mark position and the feature quantities of the reference data to make the arm tip move and calculates the second target mark position at the robot coordinate system based on a second robot position corresponding to the position of the arm tip after movement and the position of the tool center point.