Monitoring of laser weld penetration using sensor fusion

Journal of Laser Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 114-121

  Sun, Allen ^a   Kannatey Asibu Jr , Elijah ^a   Gartner, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Audible sound; Class mean scatter; Discriminant analysis; Feature fusion; Infrared sensing; Laser process monitoring; Laser welding; Multiple dimension analysis; Sensor fusion; Singular value decomposition; Ultraviolet sensing; Weld penetration

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC NOISE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MONITORING; SENSOR DATA FUSION; WELDS;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION (SVD);

LASER BEAM WELDING;

EID: 0036574603     PISSN: 1042346X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2351/1.1471562     Document Type: Article

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