Online vision-based inspection system for thermoplastic hot plate welding in window frame manufacturing

Pablo Martinez Rodriguez; Mohamed Al-Hussein; Rafiq Ahmad

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2020.03.035

Online vision-based inspection system for thermoplastic hot plate welding in window frame manufacturing

Pablo Martinez Rodriguez, Mohamed Al-Hussein, Rafiq Ahmad^*

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Abstract

Current manual quality control processes in continuous production environments are limited in impact and reliability. An online automatic inspection system is proposed to generate quality-oriented information regarding the welding of frames in window manufacturing. Using novel edge detection techniques and the Hough transform, a novel algorithm is presented to accurately estimate in real-time welding angles and the overall squareness of the window frame. The inspection system presented is integrated in an automated four-point welding machine and provides decision support to quality control operators regarding the conformity of welded frames. The system is validated in a real scenario and the proposed algorithm estimates welding angles and overall frame squareness with an accuracy of 98.38%, indicating an average error less than 0.8 degrees.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1316-1321
Number of pages	6
Journal	Procedia CIRP
Volume	93
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2020.03.035
Publication status	Published - 22 Sept 2020
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

inspection system
machine vision
thermoplastic welding
hot plate welding
window manufacturing

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Online vision-based inspection system for thermoplastic hot plate welding in window frame manufacturing

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