Infrared Signature Analysis: Real Time Monitoring Of Manufacturing Processes

Edmund R. Bangs

doi:10.1117/12.968493

1 January 1988 Infrared Signature Analysis: Real Time Monitoring Of Manufacturing Processes

Edmund R. Bangs

Proceedings Volume 0934, Thermosense X: Thermal Infrared Sensing for Diagnostics and Control; (1988) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.968493
Event: 1988 Technical Symposium on Optics, Electro-Optics, and Sensors, 1988, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The ability to monitor manufacturing processes in an adaptive control mode and perform an inspection in real time is of interest to fabricators in the pressure vessel, aerospace, automotive, nuclear and shipbuilding industries. Results of a series of experiments using infrared thermography as the principal sensing mode are presented to show how artificial intelligence contained in infrared isotherm, contains vast critical process variables. Image processing computer software development has demonstrated in a spot welding application how the process can be monitored and controlled in real time. The IR vision sensor program is now under way. Research thus far has focused on fusion welding, resistance spot welding and metal removal.

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Edmund R. Bangs "Infrared Signature Analysis: Real Time Monitoring Of Manufacturing Processes", Proc. SPIE 0934, Thermosense X: Thermal Infrared Sensing for Diagnostics and Control, (1 January 1988); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.968493

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