Publication detail

Self Acting Production of Tip For Atomic Force Microscopy

HYNČICA, T. JUHAS, M.

Original Title

Self Acting Production of Tip For Atomic Force Microscopy

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

This article describes the problem of the automatic production of a tuning fork with a tip for atomic force microscopy (AFM). It contains hardware and software (image processing) description of a self acting machine developed to solve the problem. The image processing main goal is to measure distances between individual parts during the fabrication process. A camera with high resolution and macro objective is used to acquire images during the assembly process. For getting better results, we perform correction of the used camera distortion and its calibration. Together with proposed image processing methods we use the camera as an accurate distance sensor. So obtained data we then used to control the process. We implemented proposed image processing methods in C++ using Intel OpenCV library. The machine is able to produce the tuning fork with the tip with constant parameters, which is important for future work with the microscope.

Keywords

image procesing;camera calibration; image distance measurement; camera distortion correction; industrial object recognition; illumination of a scene; stepper motors; I/O Arduino board; servomotors; object oriented software design; AFM tip

Authors

HYNČICA, T.; JUHAS, M.

RIV year

2011

Released

15. 9. 2011

Publisher

IEEE Operations Center

ISBN

978-1-4577-1424-5

Book

The 6th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications (IDAACS'2011)

Edition number

1

Pages from

417

Pages to

420

Pages count

4

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT74528,
  author="Tomáš {Hynčica} and Miroslav {Juhas}",
  title="Self Acting Production of Tip For Atomic Force Microscopy",
  booktitle="The 6th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications (IDAACS'2011)",
  year="2011",
  number="1",
  pages="417--420",
  publisher="IEEE Operations Center",
  doi="10.1109/IDAACS.2011.6072787",
  isbn="978-1-4577-1424-5"
}