Title
A Robot-Driven 3D Shape Measurement System for Automatic Quality Inspection of Thermal Objects on a Forging Production Line.
Abstract
The three-dimensional (3D) geometric evaluation of large thermal forging parts online is critical to quality control and energy conservation. However, this online 3D measurement task is extremely challenging for commercially available 3D sensors because of the enormous amount of heat radiation and complexity of the online environment. To this end, an automatic and accurate 3D shape measurement system integrated with a fringe projection-based 3D scanner and an industrial robot is presented. To resist thermal radiation, a double filter set and an intelligent temperature control loop are employed in the system. In addition, a time-division-multiplexing trigger is implemented in the system to accelerate pattern projection and capture, and an improved multi-frequency phase-shifting method is proposed to reduce the number of patterns required for 3D reconstruction. Thus, the 3D measurement efficiency is drastically improved and the exposure to the thermal environment is reduced. To perform data alignment in a complex online environment, a view integration method is used in the system to align non-overlapping 3D data from different views based on the repeatability of the robot motion. Meanwhile, a robust 3D registration algorithm is used to align 3D data accurately in the presence of irrelevant background data. These components and algorithms were evaluated by experiments. The system was deployed in a forging factory on a production line and performed a stable online 3D quality inspection for thermal axles.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/s18124368
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
thermal axles,industrial robot,3D measurement,3D data alignment,production line
Thermal,System of measurement,Mechanical engineering,Electronic engineering,Forging,Production line,Engineering,Robot
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
12.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Liya Han111.38
Xu Cheng2142.97
Zhongwei Li312.39
kai zhong412.05
Yusheng Shi5195.24
hao jiang65917.96