In this section we describe the solution methodology and discuss the components separately. The control flow is described and the methods, specific equipment and procedures are also discussed in detail.
We use a vision sensor (B/W CCD camera) and a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) with the necessary software interfaces to a Sun Sparcstation as the sensing devices. The object is to be inspected by the cooperation of the observer camera and the probing CMM. A DEDS is used as the high-level framework for exploring the mechanical part. A dynamic recursive context for finite state machines (DRFSM) is used to exploit the recursive nature of the parts under consideration.