Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology

  • 제19권10호
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  • Pages.1856-1863
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  • 2005
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  • 1738-494X(pISSN)
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  • 1976-3824(eISSN)
대한기계학회 (The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers)
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A Study on a Vision Sensor System for Tracking the I-Butt Weld Joints

  • Kim Jae-Woong (School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University) ;
  • Bae Hee-Soo (Korea Electric Power Research Institute)
  • 발행 : 2005.10.01
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초록

In this study, a visual sensor system for weld seam tracking the I-butt weld joints in GMA welding was constructed. The sensor system consists of a CCD camera, a diode laser with a cylindrical lens and a band-pass-filter to overcome the degrading of image due to spatters and arc light. In order to obtain the enhanced image, quantitative relationship between laser intensity and iris opening was investigated. Throughout the repeated experiments, the shutter speed was set at 1/1000 second for minimizing the effect of spatters on the image, and therefore the image without the spatter traces could be obtained. Region of interest was defined from the entire image and gray level of the searched laser stripe was compared to that of weld line. The differences between these gray levels lead to spot the position of weld joint using central difference method. The results showed that, as long as weld line is within $\pm15^{o}$ from the longitudinal straight line, the system constructed in this study could track the weld line successfully. Since the processing time is no longer than 0.05 sec, it is expected that the developed method could be adopted to high speed welding such as laser welding.

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