Manual, Hybrid and Automated Inspection Literature and Current Research
Parimal H. Kopardekar, Anil Mital, Sam Anand · Integrated Manufacturing Systems · 1993
Inspection is an activity that controls the outgoing product quality and involves search, detection and measurement or diagnosis. Traditionally, inspection tasks have been allocated to humans. Attempts to automate industrial inspection in order to eliminate errors and alleviate monotony have faced difficulties due to technological limitations and/or prohibitive implementation costs. An occasional compromise is partial automation (hybrid inspection). Reviews published research in manual, hybrid and automated inspection to understand the current research status.