Machine Vision with Collaborative Robots
Wed, Apr 12, 2023 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Guiding a robot with 2D or 3D vision increases flexibility and reduces cost in many different industrial robot applications. As collaborative robots, or cobots, gain popularity, they bring new possibilities to incorporate machine vision in the work cell. Josh Person of FANUC America Corp. focuses on how machine vision and collaborative robots work together for a wide range of applications. Cobots support unique solutions for real-world problems. Adding vision to a cobot provides yet another tool to help customers improve production processes, gain efficiencies, reduce floor space requirements, and stay competitive. Sponsored by Metaphase Technologies and Hamamatsu Corporation.
Optical Vortices and Their Interactions
Tue, Apr 25, 2023 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
David Andrews, Ph.D., of the University of East Anglia provides a broad introduction to optical vortices, concisely explaining the key experimental methods and theory. He also shares the principles that determine the unusual features of optical vortex interactions with matter. At the quantum level, simple symmetry principles explain a range of novel effects, while in the broader fields of singular optics and structured light, topology is more relevant. Some of the latest studies reveal especially striking phenomena at the focal point of vortex beams. Despite optical vortices’ simple basis, the field is one in which wave optics, quantum theory, and symmetry can all reveal their distinctive effects in straightforward experiments.
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