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A study on measurement and compensation of automobile door gap using optical triangulation algorithm  

Kang, Dong-Sung (WISYS Co., Ltd.)
Lee, Jeong-woo (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University)
Ko, Kang-Ho (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University)
Kim, Tae-Min (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University)
Park, Kyu-Bag (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University)
Park, Jung Rae (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University)
Kim, Ji-Hun (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University)
Choi, Doo-Sun (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University)
Lim, Dong-Wook (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University)
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Design & Manufacturing / v.14, no.1, 2020 , pp. 8-14 More about this Journal
Abstract
In general, auto parts production assembly line is assembled and produced by automatic mounting by an automated robot. In such a production site, quality problems such as misalignment of parts (doors, trunks, roofs, etc.) to be assembled with the vehicle body or collision between assembly robots and components are often caused. In order to solve such a problem, the quality of parts is manually inspected by using mechanical jig devices outside the automated production line. Automotive inspection technology is the most commonly used field of vision, which includes surface inspection such as mounting hole spacing and defect detection, body panel dents and bends. It is used for guiding, providing location information to the robot controller to adjust the robot's path to improve process productivity and manufacturing flexibility. The most difficult weighing and measuring technology is to calibrate the surface analysis and position and characteristics between parts by storing images of the part to be measured that enters the camera's field of view mounted on the side or top of the part. The problem of the machine vision device applied to the automobile production line is that the lighting conditions inside the factory are severely changed due to various weather changes such as morning-evening, rainy days and sunny days through the exterior window of the assembly production plant. In addition, since the material of the vehicle body parts is a steel sheet, the reflection of light is very severe, which causes a problem in that the quality of the captured image is greatly changed even with a small light change. In this study, the distance between the car body and the door part and the door are acquired by the measuring device combining the laser slit light source and the LED pattern light source. The result is transferred to the joint robot for assembling parts at the optimum position between parts, and the assembly is done at the optimal position by changing the angle and step.
Keywords
Automotive inspection; Compensation algorithm; Door Gap; Inspection algorithm; Machine vision;
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