Finding Components on a Circuit Board
Work reported herein was conducted at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology research program supported in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense and monitored by the Office of Naval Research under Contract Number N00014-70-A-0362-0005. Vision Flashes are informal papers intended for internal use.
Working Paper
This paper describes a set of programs written in LISP that recognize resistors on circuit boards. The approach leans heavily on a thorough examination of the features found in representative intensity arrays and on representing the important points procedurally. The programs attempt to exploit evidence as it is gathered. The issues of hypothesis formation and change are considered. This paper represents a continuation of research described in a S. B. thesis of the same title submitted at M.I.T. on June, 1973.