Real-time seam penetration identification in arc welding based on fusion of sound, voltage and spectrum signals

Zhifen Zhang () and Shanben Chen ()
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Zhifen Zhang: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanben Chen: Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2017, vol. 28, issue 1, No 16, 207-218

Abstract: Abstract Sensor technology application is the key for intelligent welding process. Multiple sensors fusion has shown their significant advantages over single sensor which can only provide limited information. In this paper, a feature-level data fusion methodology was presented to automatically evaluate seam quality in real time for Al alloy in gas tungsten arc welding by means of online arc sound, voltage and spectrum signals. Based on the developed algorithms in time and frequency domain, multiple feature parameters were successively extracted and selected from sound and voltage signals, while spectrum distribution of argon atoms related to seam penetration were carefully analyzed before feature parameters selection. After the synchronization of heterogeneous feature parameters, the feature-level-based data fusion was conducted by establishing a classifier using support vector machine and 10-fold cross validation. The test results indicate that multisensory-based classifier has higher accuracy i.e., 96.5873 %, than single sensor-based one in term of recognizing seam defects, like under penetration and burn through from normal penetration.

Keywords: Multisensory data fusion; Feature extraction; Feature selection; Penetration identification; Arc welding (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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