Tip-on-a-chip: Automatic dotting with glitter ink pen for individual identification of tiny parts

Kudo, Yuta; Zwaan, Hugo; Takahashi, Toru; Ishiyama, Rui; Jonker, P.P.

doi:10.1145/3204949.3208116

Tip-on-a-chip

Title

Tip-on-a-chip: Automatic dotting with glitter ink pen for individual identification of tiny parts

Author

Kudo, Yuta (NEC Corporation)
Zwaan, Hugo (Student TU Delft)
Takahashi, Toru (NEC Corporation)
Ishiyama, Rui (NEC Corporation)
Jonker, P.P. (TU Delft Biomechatronics & Human-Machine Control)

Date

2018

Abstract

This paper presents a new identification system for tiny parts that have no space for applying conventional ID marking or tagging. The system marks the parts with a single dot using ink containing shiny particles. The particles in a single dot naturally form a unique pattern. The parts are then identified by matching microscopic images of this pattern with a database containing images of these dots. In this paper, we develop an automated system to conduct dotting and image capturing for massproduced parts. Experimental results show that our "Tip-on-achip" system can uniquely identify more than ten thousand chip capacitors.

Subject

Classification
Image recognition
Individual identification
IoT
MIDoT
My dot
Traceability

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1145/3204949.3208116

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY , USA

ISBN

978-1-4503-5192-8

Source

Proceedings of the 9th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2018)