Dobór elementów wizyjnego systemu monitorowania procesu spawania

Obserwacje wizyjne stają się coraz bardziej powszechnym sposobem kontroli i nadzorowania procesów produkcyjnych i zjawisk w nich zachodzących. Jedną z możliwości zastosowania systemu wizyjnego jest kontrola procesu spawania i wykonywanych połączeń. W artykule przedstawiono wskazówki i zalecenia dotyczące wyboru i konfiguracji systemu wizyjnego przeznaczonego do kontroli procesu spawania i połączeń spawanych. Informacje zawarte w artykule wynikają z doświadczeń zdobytych przez autorów w trakcie opracowywania systemu wizyjnej kontroli spawania.

Visual observation are becoming more and more common way of control and supervision of industrial processes and phenomena related to them. One of possibilities of vision system application is control of a welding process and welded joints. In the paper there are presented hints and recommendations dealing with selection of a configuration of the vision system for control of a welding process and welded joints. A system for monitoring welding process elaborated by the authors is also described and discussed. The welding process can be observed both in a range of infrared as well as in visual electromagnetic waves. The vision system consists of elements realizing image generation, acquisition, processing, and analysis. In more sophisticated systems the last stage of their operation is image recognition. Recently, the observation of welding processes with use of vision systems is a subject of great interests of numerous companies and research centers. There are commercial and experimental solutions of these systems. During the process usually the size and location of a weld pool, geometry of the welded joint as well as the quality of the joint can be evaluated. An on-line system basing on the analysis results of the above enumerated elements of the welding process makes it possible to control the process parameters. The authors have elaborated a system consisting f a TV and infrared camera. The system allows observing MIG/MAG welding process. The authors' experience shows that a correct configuration of the vision system has fundamental influence on the recorded data.