Semi-Supervised Training for Positioning of Welding Seams

Robotic welding often uses vision-based measurement to find the correct placement of the welding seam. Traditional machine vision methods work well in many cases but lack robustness when faced with variations in the manufacturing process or in the imaging conditions. While supervised deep neural net...

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Autores principales: Wenbin Zhang, Jochen Lang
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/8e110c9f998142fd94a346a7bb346a65
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Sumario:Robotic welding often uses vision-based measurement to find the correct placement of the welding seam. Traditional machine vision methods work well in many cases but lack robustness when faced with variations in the manufacturing process or in the imaging conditions. While supervised deep neural networks have been successful in increasing accuracy and robustness in many real-world measurement applications, their success relies on labeled data. In this paper, we employ semi-supervised learning to simultaneously increase accuracy and robustness while avoiding expensive and time-consuming labeling efforts by a domain expert. While semi-supervised learning approaches for various image classification tasks exist, we purpose a novel algorithm for semi-supervised key-point detection for seam placement by a welding robot. We demonstrate that our approach can work robustly with as few as fifteen labeled images. In addition, our method utilizes full image resolution to enhance the accuracy of the key-point detection in seam placement.