Weld line detection algorithm for radiography test of welding beads in a ship piping system

  • Sang Jun Lee
  • , Jong Pil Yun
  • , Gyogwon Koo
  • , Hyeyeon Choi
  • , Sang Woo Kim

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Abstract

Inspection of welding beads is important to achieve reliability of welding condition. Radiography testing is a widely used method in ship piping systems to verify welding quality. In our industry problem, a mobile robot was utilized to radiate X-ray outwards from inside of a pipe. Because small amount of radiation is allowed by the legal regulation, precise localization of a weld line is required. This paper proposes a robot vision algorithm to precisely localize the position of a weld line in a piping system. The proposed algorithm detects a weld line and loosely localizes the position by using a difference of Gaussian. For a sub-region that contains the loosely localized weld line, morphological operations are applied to precisely localize the position of the weld line. Experiments were conducted on real industry data to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICCAS 2017 - 2017 17th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1356-1359
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9788993215137
DOIs
StatePublished - 13 Dec 2017
Event17th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, ICCAS 2017 - Jeju, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 18 Oct 201721 Oct 2017

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Control, Automation and Systems
Volume2017-October
ISSN (Print)1598-7833

Conference

Conference17th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, ICCAS 2017
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityJeju
Period18/10/1721/10/17

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems - ICROS.

Keywords

  • Computer vision
  • Image processing
  • Ship piping system
  • Weld line detection
  • Welding bead

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