Title
A U-Net Based Approach for Automating Tribological Experiments.
Abstract
Tribological experiments (i.e., characterizing the friction and wear behavior of materials) are crucial for determining their potential areas of application. Automating such tests could hence help speed up the development of novel materials and coatings. Here, we utilize convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to automate a common experimental setup whereby an endoscopic camera was used to measure the contact area between a rubber sample and a spherical counterpart. Instead of manually determining the contact area, our approach utilizes a U-Net-like CNN architecture to automate this task, creating a much more efficient and versatile experimental setup. Using a 5x random permutation cross validation as well as additional sanity checks, we show that we approached human-level performance. To ensure a flexible and mobile setup, we implemented the method on an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier development kit where we achieved similar to 18 frames per second by employing mixed-precision training.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/s20226703
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
convolutional neural network,tribology,semantic segmentation
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
22
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Benjamin Staar100.34
Suleyman Bayrak200.34
Dominik Paulkowski300.34
michael freitag4118.33