An online quality assessment framework for automated welding processes

International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 68, Issue 5-8, 2013, Pages 1655-1664

  Fronthaler, H ^a   Croonen, G ^a   Biber, J ^a   Heber, M ^b   Ruther M ^b  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dynamic time warping; Hough transform; Nondestructive testing; Shape features; Splines

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; SPLINES; WELDS;

AUTOMATED WELDING; DISTANCE MEASURE; DYNAMIC TIME WARPING; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; QUALITY MEASURES; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SHAPE FEATURES; SPLINE FUNCTIONS;

WELDING;

EID: 84888356887     PISSN: 02683768     EISSN: 14333015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00170-013-4964-3     Document Type: Article

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