Weld line detection and process control for welding automation

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 819-826

  Yang, Sang Min ^a   Cho, Man Ho ^b   Lee, Ho Young ^c   Cho, Taik Dong ^a  

^a Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^b Hanbat National University   (South Korea)

^c Daegu Machinery Institute of Components and Materials (DMI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adaptive Hough transformation; Neural network; Welding automation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROCESS CONTROL; WELDING;

ADAPTIVE HOUGH TRANSFORMATION; NEURAL-NETWORK ALGORITHM; WELDING AUTOMATION;

FACTORY AUTOMATION;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; FACTORY AUTOMATION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROCESS CONTROL; WELDING;

EID: 34247226036     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/18/3/034     Document Type: Article

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