Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering

Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) is among the most common and effective quality checks employed in production lines. This paper details the design of a Deep Learning solution that was developed for addressing a specific quality control in a Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) manufacturing process. The developed Deep Neural Network exploits transfer learning and a synthetic data generation process to be trained even if the quantity of the data samples available is low. The overall AOI system was designed to be deployed on low-cost hardware with limited computing capabilities to ease its deployment in industrial settings.