Control 2024

Trade fair / April 23, 2024 - April 26, 2024, 9.00 am - 5.00 pm

36th CONTROL | International Trade Fair for Quality Assurance

CONTROL is the most important international trade event for all topics relating to measuring and testing technology as well as computer vision, image processing, and sensor technology. It highlights all aspects in theory and presents the worldwide range of usable technologies, processes, products, and system solutions for industrial quality assurance in practice.

Fraunhofer IOSB will be present with its Inspection and Optronic Systems business unit.

Visit us: Hall 8, Booth no. 8201

Event details

Program

Fraunhofer IOSB is represented with five topics / exhibits - see below on this page.

Registration

Take advantage of our free visitor tickets and visit us at Control!

Location

Stuttgart
Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH
Messepiazza 1
70629 Stuttgart
GERMANY

Date

April 23, 2024 - April 26, 2024, 9.00 am - 5.00 pm

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Fraunhofer IOSB exhibits at the CONTROL 2024

Pruefling Glasplatte mit Defekt — © Fraunhofer IOSB
Customized light field illumination (right) compared to normal illumination for industrial visual inspection.

Light Field Inspection - light field-based light source for flexible use

In the inspection technology presented here, objects with complex geometries are illuminated by a specially adapted "light recipe" in such a way that relevant structures can be detected with maximum contrast. The optimum light field for this task is determined by an algorithm that intelligently adapts the lighting modalities to the individual object geometry. This approach is groundbreaking for a future generation of inspection systems, as image evaluation and lighting are optimized together for the most efficient inspection system possible.

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT

Your contact person: Christian Kludt (Visual Inspection Systems Department)

Deflectometry: Automatic visual inspection of reflective surfaces

At the Fraunhofer IOSB, the deflectometry method is used to inspect flat or curved reflective surfaces. It can be used to examine embossed, polished, painted or glazed surfaces made of plastic, metal, glass and other materials. The results provide information on the location, size and type of functional or aesthetic defects and, if required, on the shape and waviness of the surface. Possible areas of application for the process can be found wherever defect-free surfaces with low roughness are required. A transportable system for inspecting workpieces measuring up to 30 x 10 cm² will be presented at the Control stand.

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT

Your contact persons: Jan Burke, Mathias Ziebarth (Systems for Measurement, Control and Diagnosis Department)

Halodome - AI & computer vision for learning automatic quality control

The Halodome exhibit is an AI-based process for quality assurance. The system only needs a few training examples to learn how a component should look correctly. If the system is confronted with new views that deviate from this, the system recognizes the deviations and indicates the deviating areas in the camera image. The results are intuitively presented to a worker, who can view and check them. The worker can overwrite the system results, make additional edits and even feed their revisions back to the system for retraining. Initially, the system requires few training examples and can be put into operation quickly and easily. During operation, it learns from the worker and gradually improves. The human operator always remains the final control authority. The system can therefore be used cost-effectively for new components as long as the anomalies in the camera image are recognizable.

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT

Your contact person: Michael Voit (Interactive Analysis and Diagnosis Department)

Explainable AI with the XAI toolbox

The XAI toolbox developed by Fraunhofer IOSB is essentially designed for AI explainability. It enables the rapid evaluation of various XAI methods for AI processes. This means that the toolbox can be used, for example, to analyze data, debug and explain the prediction of any black box model. This ensures the trustworthiness of AI decisions. It currently supports scikit- and TensorFlow-based time series classifiers.

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT

Your contact person: Nadia Burkart (Interactive Analysis and Diagnosis Department)

SWAP – heterogeneous, workload-optimised robot teams and production architectures

In the dynamic and demanding global market environment, manufacturing companies are faced with the challenge of creating customized and cost-effective products. In the face of increasing market volatility, these companies must not only be flexible, but also guarantee on-time deliveries, high product quality and seamless traceability. To meet these complex requirements, an interdisciplinary Fraunhofer consortium offers innovative software and hardware solutions that include advanced approaches in production control and organization as well as in component handling, quality assurance and traceability.

The "SWAP-IT" architecture, a new technological concept for implementing the production of tomorrow, was developed as part of the Fraunhofer lighthouse project "SWAP". "SWAP-IT" enables the transformation of rigid process chains with individual processing stations into flexible and dynamic manufacturing environments. The core of this innovation is a modular cyber-physical production system that efficiently integrates both centralized and decentralized elements.

About the Exhibit

Your contact person: Andreas Ebner (Cognitive Industrial Systems Department)

Trade fair / April 23, 2024 - April 26, 2024, 9.00 am - 5.00 pm

36th CONTROL | International Trade Fair for Quality Assurance

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Event details

Program

Registration

Location

Fraunhofer IOSB exhibits at the CONTROL 2024

Light Field Inspection - light field-based light source for flexible use

Deflectometry: Automatic visual inspection of reflective surfaces

Halodome - AI & computer vision for learning automatic quality control

Explainable AI with the XAI toolbox

SWAP – heterogeneous, workload-optimised robot teams and production architectures

Contact Press / Media

Dipl.-Bw. (FH) Marion Staub