Inspection of Printed Circuit Boards by Connectivity Preserving Shrinking

  • Authors:
  • Q.-Z. Ye;P. E. Danielsson

  • Affiliations:
  • Linko¨ping Univ., Linko¨ping, Sweden;Linko¨ping Univ., Linko¨ping, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

Two algorithms for visual inspection of printed-circuit boards are presented that perform width checking of conductors and insulators. The first detects the difference between the results of shrinking and connectivity-preserving shrinking (CPS). The second algorithm produces a difference between the original and the shrunk picture. This result is subject to a number of CPS-operations after which errors are easily detected. Both algorithms can be adapted to a suitable level of sensitivity to sharp corners and edge irregularities. A sequential version of CPS is also described which is well suited for hardware implementation in a pipelined structure.