Development of educational material for manufacturing engineering using stereo vision and 3D CAD/CAM

This paper proposes a technical education program for engineering students; this program is based on a 3D CAD/CAM technology and a stereo vision technology, and it encourages the students to use a CAD/CAM circuit board and an image information processing system. Further, in this study, control experiments involving the use of a simple and compact robot equipped with a stereo vision system were performed. In addition, this education program that introduces students to the attractive 3D CAD/CAM technology and the stereo vision technology can expect to provide students an interesting experience on both constructing a robot and programming.