FINDER: Fast intelligent defect recognition system

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 02.0238

Key words (English)

Measurement Methods; Reference Materials

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: G6RD-CT-2002-00668

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.3.8 Generic R&D activities

Short description (English)

See abstract

Further information (English)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
ETH Zürich
Institut für Hygiene u.Arbeitsphysiologie

Abstract (English)

The development of an advanced and flexible inspection solution able to identify various esthetic defects on complex reflective forms, to carry out failure cause diagnosis of imperfections and to take intelligent and confident decisions inconformity with a new reference methodology of appearance defect classification, is the proposed innovative solution for resolving the urgent problem of vehicle headlamp reflector concerning quality inspection and manufacturing process reliability with important economic and environmental consequences.

The completely new principle for a flexible (considering the product, production line, defect type, interfaces), nearly 'universal' esthetic defect detection (considering the complexity of car reflector) device is probably the most ambitious challenge of this project able to accelerate significantly introduction of automatic esthetic defect inspection in many industrial sectors.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 02.0238