New Method Based on Phase Congruency for Weld Pool Edge Extraction in Laser Cladding

doi:10.3901/JME.2018.05.166

Abstract

Abstract: Aiming at the problem of being difficult in weld pool edge extraction in laser cladding due to the interference such as arc, molten metal drop and so on. A method for extracting the edge based on phase congruency is presented. In order to extract complete and accurate weld pool edge, the molten pool is roughly divided by using the method based on threshold after preprocessing the acquired weld pool image. Phase consistency model is adopted to execute the edge detection for the clipped molten pool image and its edge is marked in coarse segmentation region. Then make further segmentation for the marked image and extract the weld pool edge with sobel operator. Comparison and analysis of the related experiments show that this method has good performance in the accuracy and robustness of weld pool edge extraction.

Key words: edge extraction, phase congruency, weld pool of laser cladding

CLC Number:

TN205

LIU Jian, XIANG Chaoqian, WANG Fanghua, YI Huaian. New Method Based on Phase Congruency for Weld Pool Edge Extraction in Laser Cladding[J]. Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2018, 54(5): 166-172.

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