Progress, challenges and trends on vision sensing technologies in automatic/intelligent robotic welding: State-of-the-art review

Q Guo, Z Yang, J Xu, Y Jiang, W Wang, Z Liu… - Robotics and computer …, 2024 - Elsevier
Welding is a method of realizing material connections, and the development of modern
sensing technology is pushing this traditional process towards automation and intelligence …

Application of sensing technology in intelligent robotic arc welding: A review

F Xu, Y Xu, H Zhang, S Chen - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2022 - Elsevier
As a traditional fusion welding method, arc welding occupies most of the total welding
production. However, the current industrial welding robots with the “teaching and playback” …

Deep learning-based welding image recognition: A comprehensive review

T Liu, P Zheng, J Bao - Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
The reliability and accuracy of welding image recognition (WIR) is critical, which can largely
improve domain experts' insight of the welding system. To ensure its performance, deep …

Real-time sensing of gas metal arc welding process–A literature review and analysis

Y Cheng, R Yu, Q Zhou, H Chen, W Yuan… - Journal of manufacturing …, 2021 - Elsevier
Welding is a major manufacturing process that joins two or more pieces of materials together
through heating/mixing them, with or without pressure, as they cool and solidify. The goal of …

Penetration recognition based on machine learning in arc welding: a review

Z Wang, L Li, H Chen, X Wu, Y Dong, J Tian… - … International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Penetration recognition is the critical technology to improve manufacturing quality and
automation level in arc welding. In this paper, recent research advances concerning …

Recognition of penetration state in GTAW based on vision transformer using weld pool image

Z Wang, H Chen, Q Zhong, S Lin, J Wu, M Xu… - … International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Automatic welding penetration recognition is a significant and challenging research
direction to improve the manufacturing quality and intelligence level of gas tungsten arc …

Real-time monitoring of weld surface morphology with lightweight semantic segmentation model improved by attention mechanism during laser keyhole welding

W Cai, LS Shu, SN Geng, Q Zhou, LC Cao - Optics & Laser Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
During the welding process, the molten metal continuously solidifies along the trailing edge
of the molten pool to form the weld seam, so the change in the weld surface morphology can …

Feature extraction of laser welding pool image and application in welding quality identification

Y Gao, P Zhong, X Tang, H Hu, P Xu - IEEE access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most of the existing laser welding quality identification methods are post-weld identification
or low-speed identification (Welding speed below 120 m/min). Efficiently online monitoring …

Collaborative and quantitative prediction for reinforcement and penetration depth of weld bead based on molten pool image and deep residual network

J Lu, Y Shi, L Bai, Z Zhao, J Han - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Weld quality is generally determined by reinforcement and penetration depth of weld bead
in arc welding. Penetration depth reflects weld strength and reinforcement reflects weld …

A new method to assess fiber laser welding quality of stainless steel 304 based on machine vision and hidden Markov models

X Tang, P Zhong, L Zhang, J Gu, Z Liu, Y Gao… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-power fiber laser welding has a broad range of applications in industrial processing
and modern intelligent manufacturing, but how to assess the quality of laser welding has …