Image Analysis Methods for Control of Arc Welding

该提案是两个NSF之间的联合研究项目 工业/大学合作研究中心：爱迪生 美国俄亥俄州州立大学焊接研究所及其测量和 田纳西大学控制工程中心。 的 由两个中心分担费用的联合项目是， 进行视觉感官系统发展的研究， 确定焊缝的质量控制因素。 这项研究将 探索改善视觉成像系统的方法， 控制焊道尺寸和跟踪， 视觉（传感器）描述的识别和提取 测量，这与焊接熔池有很强的相关性 真实的时间的所需质量控制特性。 目前没有 这样的系统存在，并且这样的系统的工业益处 对美国工业有着巨大的经济效益。 一名女大学生将通过学习 以及分析图像处理的能力以评估 焊接质量 项目经理建议俄亥俄州州立大学 为他们在联合项目中的一部分提供了一年22 789美元 田纳西大学工业/大学 测控合作研究中心 工程. 这包括来自“资助支助”的5 000美元 妇女，少数民族和残疾人工程研究助理” 程序.

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.