"Marcus"... A program that adopts artificial intelligence techniques for quality control

Different industrial products require quality control to ensure they comply with specifications in terms of size, weight and various dimensions.

A team of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Research in Germany created a computer program called "Marcus" to monitor the specifications of the various components during the manufacturing process.

The TechExplore website, which specializes in technology, stated that the new program uses artificial intelligence and augmented reality techniques to carry out visual monitoring operations in order to compare the final product with the original specifications registered for the same product.

The program "recognizes the product being manufactured and detects any differences between its actual dimensions and the original target specifications," says researcher Holger Graf, from the Fraunhofer Institute, adding that the program can also "review assembly work that includes multiple components."

Through deep learning techniques, the program was trained to recognize various industrial components and products, without having previously recorded them.

The study team confirms that one of the advantages of this program is its ease of use, as it can be downloaded on smartphones or tablet computers, and it can review product specifications by simply pointing the smartphone's camera at it.

The new program is scheduled to be presented during the Hannover Messe exhibition, which will be held in the middle of this month in Germany.