Porosity defect detection based on FastICA-RBF during pulsed TIG welding process

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Abstract

Porosity is a common defect of the aluminum alloy pulsed alternating current (AC) argon tungsten-arc welding (TIG) welding, which can cause huge damage to weld quality. The spectral information which is directly derived from the optical radiation of the arc is intrinsically related to the welding defects. Aiming at the redundancy of arc spectral, this paper proposed a method of porosity defect detection based on fast independent component analysis (fastICA) and radial basis function (RBF) network. The spectral data is collected by spectrometer, and continuous spectra are removed by calculating lower envelope twice. Then fastICA is applied to extract features from selected line spectra. Finally, the porosity defect is detected by RBF network according to the mean value in period of extracted features. Experimental results show that the proposed method can be used to detect the porosity defects during aluminum alloy pulsed TIG welding process.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 13th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2017
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages548-553
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781509067800
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jul 2017
Event13th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2017 - Xi'an, China
Duration: 20 Aug 201723 Aug 2017

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
Volume2017-August
ISSN (Print)2161-8070
ISSN (Electronic)2161-8089

Conference

Conference13th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi'an
Period20/08/1723/08/17

Keywords

  • RBF network
  • arc spectral
  • fastICA
  • porosity defect detection
  • pulsed TIG welding

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