Development of an automatic weld surface appearance inspection system using machine vision |
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Authors: | Lin Sanbao Fu Xibin Fan Chenglei Yang Chunli Luo Lu |
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Affiliation: | State Key Laboratory of Advanced Welding Production Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001 |
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Abstract: | In this paper, an automatic inspection system for weld surface appearance using machine vision has been developed to recognize weld surface defects such as porosities, cracks, etc. It can replace conventional manual visual inspection method, which is tedious, time-consuming, subjective, experience-depended, and sometimes biased. The system consists of a CCD camera, a self-designed annular light source, a sensor controller, a frame grabbing card, a computer and so on. After acquiring weld surface appearance images using CCD, the images are preprocessed using median filtering and a series of image enhancement algorithms. Then a dynamic threshold and morphology algorithms are applied to segment defect object. Finally, defect features information is obtained by eight neighborhoods boundary chain code algorithm. Experimental results show that the developed system is capable of inspecting most surface defects such as porosities, cracks with high reliability and accuracy. |
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Keywords: | weld surface appearance visual inspection surface defects machine vision |
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