Robot Control and Computer Vision for Automated Test System on Touch Display Products

Abstract: The goal of this master thesis is to set up a low cost automated robotic test system which can later be reproduced to greatly increase test coverage. Mostly through experimental research this thesis will find good components to use and evaluate these from a performance and cost perspective. It will also develop computer vision algorithms needed and automation software for the final set up. The performance of the robotics will be investigated by comparing with an industrial robot. A modified 6000 SEK 3D-printer was selected and proved to work. The computer vision was developed using OpenCV and a fully automated system with appropriate resulting plots was created. Comparing with the industrial robot the setup using a 3D-printer proved to work better because it allowed for better positioning of the camera. It was also concluded that the selected robot system based on a 3Dprinter was capable enough and would drastically lower the space and cost from a system using an industrial robot.