Measuring gaps between steering wheel housings using SRI series 3D cameras is essential for ensuring assembly quality in the automotive industry, but significant challenges persist. These include:  

Steering wheel assembly quality relies on accurately measuring gaps between housings, a critical step for ensuring functionality and safety. However, modern steering wheel designs feature ergonomic, irregularly shaped curved surfaces with multidimensional spatial curve characteristics at the seams, making precise gap measurement difficult.  

Traditional measurement tools, such as calipers or contact-based gauges, struggle to handle these complex shapes, often leading to inaccurate measurements, potential assembly defects, and quality issues that compromise vehicle safety and customer satisfaction.  

The need for non-contact, high-speed, and high-resolution measurement solutions is growing to keep pace with advanced manufacturing demands, but many existing tools lack the capability to adapt to varying curvatures and generate reliable 3D data for process optimization.