Tool wear monitoring using a fast Hough transform of images of machined surfaces

The texture of machined surfaces provides reliable information regarding the extent of tool wear. In this paper, we propose a structure-based approach to analyzing machined surfaces. The original surface images are first preprocessed by a Canny edge detector. A new connectivity-oriented fast Hough transform is then applied to the edge image to detect all the line segments. The distributions of the orientations and lengths of the line segments are used to determine tool wear. Through our experiments, we found a strong correlation between tool wear and features. The computational complexity of the fast Hough transform is also analyzed.Received: 6 November 2002, Accepted: 18 December 2003, Published online: 13 May 2004 Correspondence to: A.A. Kassim     

并行Hough变换快速航迹起始

Hough变换在航迹起始领域得到广泛应用,但在扫描次数较少时起始效果不佳。通过转变Hough变换处理结构和改变计数器累加方式,提出了一种并行Hough变换快速航迹起始算法。利用Hough变换将不同时刻的量测集合分别映射到参数空间,继而将空间中具有相同索引的各次累加结果构成累加向量,统计其非零元素的个数,如大于预先设定的门限,则用向量各元素求和作为累加结果,否则置零。将利用该方法获得最终的累加结果进行门限检测来确定是否起始航迹。仿真实验表明,该算法可在密集环境下快速准确地起始航迹。     

基于Hough变换的煤岩界面识别方案

根据煤层与岩石层分界明显且呈线状的煤岩图像特征,提出一种基于Hough变换的煤岩界面识别方案。首先对煤岩图像进行去噪与增强预处理,然后去除煤与岩石边缘的孤立点与虚假边缘,最后采用Hough变换识别煤岩分界线。实验结果表明,该方案能够较快、较准确地检测出煤岩分界线。     

基于Hough变换的金刚石颗粒测量方法研究

针对金刚石颗粒图像分析时的颗粒边缘非闭合性问题,本文提出了一种基于Hough变换的金刚石颗粒测量新方法。该方法首先对图像进行形态学去噪、平滑滤波和Canny边缘检测等预处理,得到金刚石颗粒图像的初始边缘曲线,然后采用Hough变换提取边缘曲线的直线特征,并通过极径和极角对多个直线特征进行判断和图形识别,得到确定的金刚石颗粒边缘轮廓,最后对得到的边缘轮廓进行拟合,测量出金刚石颗粒的粒径、椭圆度和圆度等参数大小。该方法在VC+ 环境下,用OpenCV编程技术对其进行了实验验证,结果表明：该方法可以准确快速地测量出金刚石颗粒特征参数,为金刚石颗粒的等级评定提供了技术支持。     

Calibration-based tool condition monitoring for repetitive machining operations

Reliable tool condition monitoring (TCM) system is essential for any machining process in mass production to control the part quality as well as reduce the machine tool downtime and maintenance costs. However, while various research studies have proposed their TCM systems, the complexity in setups with advanced decision-making algorithms and specificity in application to limited cutting conditions continue to complicate the implementation of these systems into practical scenarios. This study develops a very simple and flexible TCM system for repetitive machining operations. The proposed monitoring approach reduces the complexity of monitoring model by considering the important characteristic of repeatability in process which has been commonly found in the mass production scenario and implements the calibration procedure to improve the flexibility of the model application to actual machining processes with complex toolpath designs and variable cutting conditions. The selected cutting tools with specific tool conditions are used in the calibration phase to generate reference signals. In actual repetitive production, the collected signal generated by the cutting tool in each operation is compared with reference signals to identify the most similar condition of the reference tool through the proposed similarity analysis. To validate the performance, the current study demonstrates the application of proposed monitoring approach to monitor the tool wear in repetitive milling operations with complex toolpath, and the predicted tool wear progression is found to be in good agreement with experimental measurements during the machining of multiple parts over the entire tool life.     

一种用Hough变换检测圆的快速算法

为了克服传统Hough变换检测圆时耗时巨大的缺陷,给出了一种新的基于Hough变换检测圆的快速算法.新算法与传统的方法相比具有以下特点:计算量少,提高了检测的速度;保留了传统Hough变换识别率高、抗噪性强、对不完整边缘具有鲁棒性等所有优点;不需要任何特殊的限定条件.实验表明,新的快速算法可以快速进行目标识别,在实时目标识别系统中具有良好的表现.     

The 3-D Hough shape transform

The 3-D Hough shape transform is described which is used for the localization in space of 3-D objects defined in terms of the spatial organization of their features.     

基于Hough变换的植物叶脉检测新方法

针对植物叶脉的特点,提出了利用灰度拉伸、Hough变换与边缘生长、图像腐蚀与膨胀进行植物叶脉检测的新方法。在该方法中,Hough变换检测植物叶脉图像的同时也较好的消除了图像噪声,该方法应用到植物叶脉检测中效果较好。     

基于小波分析和概率Hough变换的书脊视觉识别

针对无人图书馆中机器人利用视觉进行书脊识别问题展开研究。根据书脊图像本身较复杂、单本书轮廓难以提取的特点,提出了运用小波分析做书脊轮廓增强的图像预处理方案;通过实验比较了运用Sobel算子和Canny算子做书脊轮廓检测的效果,用累计概率霍夫变换法做书脊线段查找,用VC++和OpenCV开发了应用程序;借鉴模糊计算思想,针对厚、较厚、中等厚度、较薄、薄、混合等几种类型的书脊进行了分类实验和研究,再经辅助优化处理,基本可有效识别出不同情况下每本书的书脊轮廓,检测出每本书的厚度,为机械手利用视觉进行图书取放操作奠定了基础。     

基于柔性形态变换的图像边缘检测

由于自然界中的噪声影响和图像模糊的边缘,这给图像的边缘检测和目标分割带来了一定的困难。柔性形态变换作为一种数学形态学的方法,既保留了标准形态变换的许多优良特性,又具有较好稳健性,为进行目标特征分析提供了可能。使用柔性形态变换构造边缘检测算子,对图像进行边缘检测。实验结果表明,与其他常用的边缘检测算子相比,基于柔性形态变换的边缘检测算子在有效去噪的同时,能较好地保留图像的细节信息,具有很强的实用性。     

A comparative evaluation of neural networks and hidden Markov models for monitoring turning tool wear

Condition monitoring of machine tool inserts is important for increasing the reliability and quality of machining operations. Various methods have been proposed for effective tool condition monitoring (TCM), and currently it is generally accepted that the indirect sensor-based approach is the best practical solution to reliable TCM. Furthermore, in recent years, neural networks (NNs) have been shown to model successfully, the complex relationships between input feature sets of sensor signals and tool wear data. NNs have several properties that make them ideal for effectively handling noisy and even incomplete data sets. There are several NN paradigms which can be combined to model static and dynamic systems. Another powerful method of modeling noisy dynamic systems is by using hidden Markov models (HMMs), which are commonly employed in modern speech-recognition systems. The use of HMMs for TCM was recently proposed in the literature. Though the results of these studies were quite promising, no comparative results of competing methods such as NNs are currently available. This paper is aimed at presenting a comparative evaluation of the performance of NNs and HMMs for a TCM application. The methods are employed on exactly the same data sets obtained from an industrial turning operation. The advantages and disadvantages of both methods are described, which will assist the condition-monitoring community to choose a modeling method for other applications.     

Force based tool wear monitoring system for milling process based on relevance vector machine

The monitoring of tool wear status is paramount for guaranteeing the workpiece quality and improving the manufacturing efficiency. In some cases, classifier based on small training samples is preferred because of the complex tool wear process and time consuming samples collection process. In this paper, a tool wear monitoring system based on relevance vector machine (RVM) classifier is constructed to realize multi categories classification of tool wear status during milling process. As a Bayesian algorithm alternative to the support vector machine (SVM), RVM has stronger generalization ability under small training samples. Moreover, RVM classifier results in fewer relevance vectors (RVs) compared with SVM classifier. Hence, it can be carried out much faster compared to the SVM. To show the advantages of the RVM classifier, milling experiment of Titanium alloy was carried out and the multi categories classification of tool wear status under different numbers of training samples and test samples are realized by using SVM and RVM classifier respectively. The comparison of SVM with RVM shows that the RVM can get more accurate results under different number of small training samples. Moreover, the speed of classification is faster than SVM. This method casts some new lights on the industrial environment of the tool condition monitoring.     

Improved localization in a generalized Hough scheme for the detection of straight edges

Hough transforms are widely used for the location of straight edges in digital images, yet most common line parametrization schemes give no information on longitudinal localization. The generalized Hough transform goes some way to overcoming this problem. This paper studies how to improve the situation further. A trade-off between sensitivity and localization is found; in practical situations this results in significantly greater accuracy, but the important gain is a reduction in the number of ambiguities introduced by interactions between the transforms of unrelated straight edges.     

一种基于Hough变换求解无人机滚转角的方法

提出了一种在无人机进场着陆段中根据机器视觉所得的数字图像获取无人机滚转角的方法。首先对摄像机所获得图像进行一系列预处理(中值滤波、边缘检测等),然后利用Hough变换获取图像中的直线,并根据其他的约束条件从这些直线中获得地平线,最后通过最小二乘法获得无人机滚转角。     

A fast digital Radon transform—An efficient means for evaluating the Hough transform

A fast digital Radon transform based on recursively defined digital straight lines is described, which has the sequential complexity of N² log N additions for an N × N image. This transform can be used to evaluate the Hough transform to detect straight lines in a digital image. Whilst a parallel implementation of the Hough transform algorithm is difficult because of global memory access requirements, the fast digital Radon transform is vectorizable and therefore well suited for parallel computation. The structure of the fast algorithm is shown to be quite similar to the FFT algorithm for decimation in frequency. It is demonstrated that even for sequential computation the fast Radon transform is an attractive alternative to the classical Hough transform algorithm.     

一种新的用于检测直线的快速Hough变换

在分析现有常用的改进Hough变换算法思想的基础上,设计了一种新的用于直线检测的快速Hough变换,通过与现有改进Hough变换算法的比较实验,新设计算法具有更好的实时性。     

基于数学形态学和Hough变换的车牌定位算法

针对复杂环境下的车牌定位率较低的问题,提出了一种基于数学形态学和Hough变换检测车牌区域的方法。首先,对车牌图像进行图像预处理,然后,利用数学形态学的高帽变换突出车牌字符区域,并对图像进行边缘检测和连通区域分析;最后,结合Hough变换和车牌的先验知识实现车牌的精确定位。实验结果表明,针对不同复杂背景下采集到的车辆图像,该算法具有很强的鲁棒性,准确率达97.3%,能够满足现代智能交通系统对车牌定位准确性和实时性的要求。     

An unsupervised generalized Hough transform for natural shapes

The Hough transform was originally designed to recognize artifical objects in images. A Hough transform for natural shapes (HTNS) was subsequently proposed, but necessitates the supervised learning of the class of shapes. Here, we extend HTNS to unsupervised pattern recognition, the variability of the object class being coded with tools originating from mathematical morphology (erosion, dilation and distance functions).     

Intelligent tool wear monitoring based on parallel residual and stacked bidirectional long short-term memory network

Effective tool wear monitoring (TWM) is essential for accurately assessing the degree of tool wear and for timely preventive maintenance. Existing data-driven monitoring methods mainly rely on complex feature engineering, which reduces the monitoring efficiency. This paper proposes a novel TWM model based on a parallel residual and stacked bidirectional long short-term memory (PRes–SBiLSTM) network. First, a parallel residual network (PResNet) is used to extract the multi-scale local features of sensor signals adaptively. Subsequently, a stacked bidirectional long short-term memory (SBiLSTM) network is used to obtain the time-series features related to the tool wear characteristics. Finally, the predicted tool wear value is outputted through a fully connected network. A smoothing correction method is applied to improve the prediction accuracy. The proposed model is experimentally verified to have a high prediction accuracy without sacrificing its generalization ability. A TWM system framework based on the PRes–SBiLSTM network is proposed, which has a certain reference value for TWM in actual industrial environments.