A new visual method for inner-diameter of pipe figure components
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In order to measure the inner-diameter of pipe figure components rapidly and efficiently, a new high accurate method based on computer vision was introduced. The new visual measurement method was comprised of two phases, which were capturing cloud data of generatrix and processing cloud data of generatrix. The first phase employed the LMS (Laser Multi-spots Scanning) method, which combined the merits of the LSS (Laser Single-spot Scanning) method, the IRLS (Integrated Ringy Laser Section) method, the DRLS (Distributed Ringy Laser Section) method and the DRDL (Distributed Ringy Discrete Laser-spot) method, and overcame the faults of these methods. The second phase introduced the generatrix resample technology and the symmetrical generatrix difference technology. In this paper, the visual measuring arm based on the LMS method was designed in the beginning. Then, according to the optical structure of the visual measuring arm, a 3D real time mathematic model was developed. Lastly, the data processing technology proposed was adopted to process the cloud data of generatrix. The measurement system based on the new method could complete the measurement of inner-diameter of pipe figure components rapidly and efficiently in experiments, demonstrated good stability, and got high precision.
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OpenAlex topics: Optical measurement and interference techniques · Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods · Surface Roughness and Optical Measurements
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