Real-time top-face vision based control of weld pool size

Industrial Robot

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 334-340

  Smith, Jeremy S ^a   Balfour, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automation; Inspection; Visual perception; Welding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSPECTION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VISION; WELDING;

FIXTURING SYSTEMS; SYSTEM INTEGRATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WELD PENETRATION;

WELDS;

EID: 21244488149     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910510600209     Document Type: Article

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