BNC Position Estimation for an Automated Testing Facility in the Production of Oscilloscope

Abstract

Oscilloscopes may contain manufacturing defects in their BNC ports and need to be checked and tested one-by-one before packaging them. The testing process is still done manually by plugging a BNC connector into the BNC ports. Therefore, this work aims to develop an automatic inspection system that can be installed in the testing area in the plant of oscilloscope production. To do so, it needs to find the accurate position of each BNC and its distance from the installed camera on the tester robot arm. This information can be given to the robot arm to do the correct movement. A prototype system is developed based on Hough Circle Detection algorithm to identify the BNC ports. The experimental results show that the developed method is able to determine the distance from the center of the BNC port to the center of the camera, and the according angle between them.