Image Analysis Methods for Control of Arc Welding

这项提议是关于两个NSF工业/大学合作研究中心的联合研究项目：俄亥俄州立大学爱迪生焊接研究所和田纳西大学测量和控制工程中心。由两个中心分担费用的联合项目是研究开发一种视觉传感系统，以确定焊缝的质量控制因素。这项研究将探索如何改进目前用于控制焊道尺寸和跟踪的视觉成像系统，使其包含视觉(传感器)描述性测量的识别和提取，这些测量与所需的实时质量控制特性具有很强的相关性。目前还不存在这样的系统，这种系统的产业利益对美国的产业具有显著的经济效益。一名女本科生将通过研究和分析图像处理能力来评估焊接质量，以加强这一研究。项目经理建议俄亥俄州立大学获得22,789美元的奖金，为期一(1)年，以表彰他们与田纳西大学工业/大学测量与控制工程合作研究中心的联合项目。这包括来自“支持妇女、少数群体和残疾人工程研究助理”计划的5000美元。

This proposal is for a joint research project between two NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers: the Edison Welding Institute at Ohio State University and the Measurement and Control Engineering Center at the University of Tennessee. The joint project which is to be cost shared by both Centers is to conduct research on the development of a visual sensory system to determine quality control factors of a weld. The study will explore ways to improve the visual imaging system now used to control the weld bead size and tracking to one that incorporates the identification and extraction of visual (sensor) descriptive measurements, which have a strong correlation with the weld pools desired quality control properties in real time. At present, no such system exists and the industrial benefits of such a system has significant economic benefits to U.S. industries. A woman undergraduate will augment the research by studying and analyzing the capability of the image processing to assess the weld quality. The Program Manager recommends that Ohio State University be awarded $22,789 for one (1) year for their part of a joint project with the University of Tennessee's Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Measurement and Control Engineering. This includes $5,000 from the "Funding for Support of Women, Minority, and Disabled Engineering Research Assistants" program.