AUTOMATED VISUAL INSPECTION: TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS IN MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS

Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER C. YANG
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 8404
Author(s):  
Rafael Caballero ◽  
Jesús Parra ◽  
Miguel Ángel Trujillo ◽  
Francisco J. Pérez-Grau ◽  
Antidio Viguria ◽  
...  

The inspection of public infrastructure, such as viaducts and bridges, is crucial for their proper maintenance given the heavy use of many of them. Current inspection techniques are very costly and manual, requiring highly qualified personnel and involving many risks. This article presents a novel solution for the detailed inspection of viaducts using aerial robotic platforms. The system provides a highly automated visual inspection platform that does not rely on GPS and could even fly underneath the infrastructure. Unlike commercially available solutions, our system automatically references the inspection to a global coordinate system usable throughout the lifespan of the infrastructure. In addition, the system includes another aerial platform with a robotic arm to make contact inspections of detected defects, thus providing information that cannot be obtained only with images. Both aerial robotic platforms feature flexibility in the choice of camera or contact measurement sensors as the situation requires. The system was validated by performing inspection flights on real viaducts.


2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Jovančević ◽  
Jean-José Orteu ◽  
Thierry Sentenac ◽  
Rémi Gilblas

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-128
Author(s):  
Nur Dalila Abdullah ◽  
Ummi Raba'ah Hashim ◽  
Sabrina Ahmad ◽  
Lizawati Salahuddin

Selecting important features in classifying wood defects remains a challenging issue to the automated visual inspection domain. This study aims to address the extraction and analysis of features based on statistical texture on images of wood defects. A series of procedures including feature extraction using the Grey Level Dependence Matrix (GLDM) and feature analysis were executed in order to investigate the appropriate displacement and quantisation parameters that could significantly classify wood defects. Samples were taken from the KembangSemangkuk (KSK), Meranti and Merbau wood species. Findings from visual analysis and classification accuracy measures suggest that the feature set with the displacement parameter, d=2, and quantisation level, q=128, shows the highest classification accuracy. However, to achieve less computational cost, the feature set with quantisation level, q=32, shows acceptable performance in terms of classification accuracy.


1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. COLEMAN ◽  
S. NELSON ◽  
J. MARAM ◽  
A. NORMAN

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