H. Yamashina et S. Okumura, A MACHINE VISION SYSTEM FOR MEASURING WEAR AND CHIPPING OF DRILLING TOOLS, Journal of intelligent manufacturing, 7(4), 1996, pp. 319-327
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Controlo Theory & Cybernetics","Engineering, Manufacturing","Computer Science Artificial Intelligence
An automated measurement system for detection of drilling tool malfunc
tions such as wear and chipping has been developed for application to
machining centres. A machine vision system with two industrial televis
ion cameras has been developed. A global image provided by the first c
amera is used to rotate the drill such that a major cutting edge is a
central vertical line in each of the detailed images provided by the s
econd camera. The second camera, with an autofocusing mechanism, focus
es towards a potentially affected small region of the drill. Three det
ailed images are used for detection of drilling tool malfunctions, and
failed portions are extracted using image-processing techniques. Thre
e-dimensional surface contours of the failed portions along with one-
and two-dimensional quantities such as wear width, chipping width, and
the failed portion area are measured. Lighting directions are determi
ned so that the diffusion component dominates specular reflection, and
the failed portions are illuminated more than the normal portions.