NATIONAL Instruments (NI) has added machine vision capabilities to its NI CompactRIO and NI Single-Board RIO hardware devices.
NI CompactRIO and NI Single-Board RIO are said to provide engineers with an integrated measurement and control platform for industrial and embedded systems.
According to NI, with this integrated platform solution, CompactRIO becomes one of the only programmable automation controllers (PACs) on the market to perform vision tasks.
NI claims the machine vision capability means engineers can use the CompactRIO and NI Single-Board RIO devices in a variety of advanced measurement and control applications.
The solution is said to be suitable for autonomous and semi-autonomous robotics applications for obstacle avoidance, pattern recognition and simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM), where advanced control and vision functionality are required.