The invention discloses a method and 
system for monitoring 
rope arrangement faults of a drum steel 
wire rope on the basis of 
machine vision. An industrial camera is arranged on the back surface of a drum, the automatic calibration of internal parameters of a vision 
system is finished by sampling static images of a designated marker, the industrial camera is used for performing continuous image sampling on the steel 
wire rope arranged on the drum, and the horizontal coordinates of the center point of the steel 
wire rope just wound on the drum in an image coordinate 
system are acquired by virtue of a corresponding 
image processing algorithm; according to the parameters obtained by the automatic calibration, the horizontal coordinates are converted into corresponding position coordinates in an actual coordinate system, so that the center distance between the steel wire 
rope just wound on the drum and an adjacent steel wire 
rope is calculated; and whether a fault happens is judged according to the center distance, and a fault 
signal is transmitted to a monitoring center to give an alarm. Whether the drum steel wire rope has rope arrangement faults is quantitatively judged by virtue of the industrial camera, the 
data processing and 
error analysis are simple and convenient, the reliability is high, and the practicability is strong.