R-CNN-Based Large-Scale Object-Defect Inspection System for Laser Cutting in the Automotive Industry

A car side-outer is an iron mold that is applied in the design and safety of the side of a vehicle, and is subjected to a complicated and detailed molding process. The side-outer has three features that make its quality inspection difficult to automate: (1) it is large; (2) there are many objects to...

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Autores principales: Donggyun Im, Jongpil Jeong
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Sumario:A car side-outer is an iron mold that is applied in the design and safety of the side of a vehicle, and is subjected to a complicated and detailed molding process. The side-outer has three features that make its quality inspection difficult to automate: (1) it is large; (2) there are many objects to inspect; and (3) it must fulfil high-quality requirements. Given these characteristics, the industrial vision system for the side-outer is nearly impossible to apply, and indeed there is no reference for an automated defect-inspection system for the side-outer. Manual inspection of the side-outer worsens the quality and cost competitiveness of the metal-cutting companies. To address these problems, we propose a large-scale Object-Defect Inspection System based on Regional Convolutional Neural Network (R-CNN; RODIS) using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. In this paper, we introduce the framework, including the hardware composition and the inspection method of RODIS. We mainly focus on creating the proper dataset on-site, which should be prepared for data analysis and model development. Additionally, we share the trial-and-error experiences gained from the actual installation of RODIS on-site. We explored and compared various R-CNN backbone networks for object detection using actual data provided by a laser-cutting company. The Mask R-CNN models using Res-net-50-FPN show Average Precision (AP) of 71.63 (Object Detection) and 86.21 (Object Seg-mentation), which indicates a better performance than that of other models.