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Main Authors: Mascareñas, David, Green, Andre, Liao, Ashlee, Torrez, Michael, Cattaneo, Alessandro, Black, Amber, Bernardin, John, Kenyon, Garrett
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13108
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author Mascareñas, David
Green, Andre
Liao, Ashlee
Torrez, Michael
Cattaneo, Alessandro
Black, Amber
Bernardin, John
Kenyon, Garrett
author_facet Mascareñas, David
Green, Andre
Liao, Ashlee
Torrez, Michael
Cattaneo, Alessandro
Black, Amber
Bernardin, John
Kenyon, Garrett
contents We demonstrate the suitability of high dynamic range, high-speed, neuromorphic event-based, dynamic vision sensors for metallic additive manufacturing and welding for in-process monitoring applications. In-process monitoring to enable quality control of mission critical components produced using metallic additive manufacturing is of high interest. However, the extreme light environment and high speed dynamics of metallic melt pools have made this a difficult environment in which to make measurements. Event-based sensing is an alternative measurement paradigm where data is only transmitted/recorded when a measured quantity exceeds a threshold resolution. The result is that event-based sensors consume less power and less memory/bandwidth, and they operate across a wide range of timescales and dynamic ranges. Event-driven driven imagers stand out from conventional imager technology in that they have a very high dynamic range of approximately 120 dB. Conventional 8 bit imagers only have a dynamic range of about 48 dB. This high dynamic range makes them a good candidate for monitoring manufacturing processes that feature high intensity light sources/generation such as metallic additive manufacturing and welding. In addition event based imagers are able to capture data at timescales on the order of 100 μs, which makes them attractive to capturing fast dynamics in a metallic melt pool. In this work we demonstrate that event-driven imagers have been shown to be able to observe tungsten inert gas (TIG) and laser welding melt pools. The results of this effort suggest that with additional engineering effort, neuromorphic event imagers should be capable of 3D geometry measurements of the melt pool, and anomaly detection/classification/prediction.
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spellingShingle Demonstrating the Suitability of Neuromorphic, Event-Based, Dynamic Vision Sensors for In Process Monitoring of Metallic Additive Manufacturing and Welding
Mascareñas, David
Green, Andre
Liao, Ashlee
Torrez, Michael
Cattaneo, Alessandro
Black, Amber
Bernardin, John
Kenyon, Garrett
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
We demonstrate the suitability of high dynamic range, high-speed, neuromorphic event-based, dynamic vision sensors for metallic additive manufacturing and welding for in-process monitoring applications. In-process monitoring to enable quality control of mission critical components produced using metallic additive manufacturing is of high interest. However, the extreme light environment and high speed dynamics of metallic melt pools have made this a difficult environment in which to make measurements. Event-based sensing is an alternative measurement paradigm where data is only transmitted/recorded when a measured quantity exceeds a threshold resolution. The result is that event-based sensors consume less power and less memory/bandwidth, and they operate across a wide range of timescales and dynamic ranges. Event-driven driven imagers stand out from conventional imager technology in that they have a very high dynamic range of approximately 120 dB. Conventional 8 bit imagers only have a dynamic range of about 48 dB. This high dynamic range makes them a good candidate for monitoring manufacturing processes that feature high intensity light sources/generation such as metallic additive manufacturing and welding. In addition event based imagers are able to capture data at timescales on the order of 100 μs, which makes them attractive to capturing fast dynamics in a metallic melt pool. In this work we demonstrate that event-driven imagers have been shown to be able to observe tungsten inert gas (TIG) and laser welding melt pools. The results of this effort suggest that with additional engineering effort, neuromorphic event imagers should be capable of 3D geometry measurements of the melt pool, and anomaly detection/classification/prediction.
title Demonstrating the Suitability of Neuromorphic, Event-Based, Dynamic Vision Sensors for In Process Monitoring of Metallic Additive Manufacturing and Welding
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13108