| Abstract: | Attention has been focused on how to achieve intelligent automation in ferrographic diagnosis in order to overcome the subjectivity of the diagnosis process. The present paper reports on a technique of characteristic measurement developed on the basis of the VC++ 6.0 programming platform, with characteristic parameters such as area, roundness, and aspect ratio being extracted from images of wear debris based on digital image analysis. However, the extraction of characteristic parameters from a ferrographic image is not the ultimate purpose of ferrographic diagnosis. The wear particles should be classified into several pre‐decision categories and their statistical distribution should also be calculated. The grey relational grade theory is introduced in this paper as a way to recognise wear debris and a new software system has been developed to deal with the problems occurring in the automation of ferrographic diagnosis. It is shown that the identification rules can be used to treat some real wear debris images with generally satisfactory results. |
