Case Studies
Transportation Imaging
For a high growth company engaged in transportation security, Lecky Integration developed a next generation image acquisition platform that obtains multiple, high-resolution images from a variety of angles of vehicles in motion. In order to engineer special lighting and optical techniques that enhance image quality and ensure secrecy of acquisition, Lecky Integration constructed a specialized testing lab and developed customized software for camera control and synchronization, vehicle velocity measurement, and image restoration. This system has been expanded to include 11 cameras performing vehicle ID reading [five cameras, simultaneously] and damage inspection from a mix of high-speed, high-resolution, and line scan images.
For an international company involved in law enforcement systems, Lecky Integration developed an ID-reading system that provides high-speed, real-time identification of railroad locomotives and subway cars. This fully-integrated, embedded computing product uses gigabit-ethernet cameras, infrared strobes, and low-cost computer hardware, along with highly specialized, custom algorithms to achieve near-perfect read rates in a broad variety of challenging conditions.
Machine Vision
For a supplier of machine vision factory automation systems, Lecky Integration developed a high-speed, compact image processing computer. To conduct extensive research and component qualification, Lecky Integration built a customized, high-performance machine vision test laboratory and specialized image processing software platform that evaluates combinations of components and determines the optimal configuration that meets the customer’s exacting requirements. This next-generation design integrates cameras from multiple vendors, GigE technology, small form factor mother boards, high performance, multicore processors, and various real time and commercial operating systems to create a next generation product, which the customer will be producing.
For a leading manufacturer of machine vision systems, Lecky Integration invented and implemented a high performance, pattern matching algorithm that reads variations in part location, rotation, and size at real time inspection speeds. Based on a set of thousands of factory automation test images, the image processing code had to take advantage of the latest multi-core processors and operate flawlessly in a normal PC environment without memory restrictions, as well as in a smart camera embedded system with severe memory limitations. This new, cutting edge algorithm has been designed into our client’s existing product line as a major enhancement for 2010.
Embedded Computing
For a start-up wind power company, Lecky Integration designed, engineered and built a fully redundant control system, including firmware and control code, which met a wide range of challenging specifications, including: cost sensitivity, accelerated development time-line, lightning resistance and exposure to heavy wear and tear as well as extreme weather conditions. Because wires would have complicated lightning resistance, the system utilizes wireless communications to tie together customized sets of circuit boards that continuously monitor weather conditions and all turbine outputs to steer the turbine for maximum safety and efficiency and to coordinate power transmission to the grid. The system also manages power generation and distribution for all of the turbine’s internal systems.
For one of the world’s largest defense contractors, Lecky Integration designed, engineered, and manufactured a set of power conversion units that provide stable electric power for a mission-critical application in the harsh climate of northern Alaska. The units use high-quality, high-efficiency electronics to convert power from special generators to create stable electric power for use in other systems. Lecky Integration not only designed the electronics, but sourced the housings and manufactured the final units. The units met the exacting specifications of the client and the military end user and were produced in less than 10 weeks.
