The thesis covered the creation and testing of a low cost
and modular sorting system of pegs used in products by Lafayette
Instruments. The system is designed to
check peg dimensions through use of computer vision while sorting out
nonconforming parts and counting ones that are conforming. Conforming parts are
separated into bins of predetermined quantities so that they do not need manual
counting. The developed system will save engineers and technicians at Lafayette
instruments many man hours from manually sorting and counting the roughly
160,000 pegs a year. The system will be able to sort and count at a speed
comparable to a human operator while achieving an overall average accuracy of
95% or higher.