Research direction of industrial endoscopy

The reform and opening up has enabled the rapid entry of foreign software equipment, etc., allowing us to walk the path that others have walked for decades in a relatively short period of time. Most of the existing industrial electronic endoscope companies in our country have been successfully restructured, and they all have good These have laid a good foundation for my country's industrial electronic endoscope industry to establish international competitiveness. With the development of computer technology, researchers have gradually combined traditional endoscopic technology with it, and developed many new endoscopic technology products, which are usually composed of hardware systems and software systems: the hardware system completes the collection of endoscopic images and observation functions; the software system completes the functions of analysis, processing and measurement of endoscopic images. The new endoscopic systems all adopt video imaging, which greatly improves the definition, increases the viewing distance, makes the endoscopic probe smaller, and improves the operating flexibility. More importantly, they can carry out the three-dimensional measurement function of the target area, thus improving the defects of traditional endoscopic technology.

The development of industrial endoscope automation includes two aspects. One is the wireless remote control type, so as to avoid being limited by factors such as the length and quality of the conductive line, and the image is transmitted wirelessly; the other is the wired type, such as the use of snake-shaped robots, etc. Its main purpose is that the probe does not need to be manually manipulated inside, but is automatically searched, thereby reducing the experience requirements for operators and avoiding artificial damage to the instrument. At present, some relevant institutions in the United Kingdom, Japan and the United States are conducting extensive research on endoscopic robot technology, which has obvious significance in engine maintenance.