Automatic thermographic image defect detection of composites

Bin Luo; Bjorn Liebenberg; Jeff Raymont; SP Santospirito

doi:10.1117/12.886805

10 May 2011 Automatic thermographic image defect detection of composites

Bin Luo, Bjorn Liebenberg, Jeff Raymont, SP Santospirito

Proceedings Volume 8013, Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXIII; 80130S (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.886805
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2011, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Detecting defects, and especially reliably measuring defect sizes, are critical objectives in automatic NDT defect detection applications. In this work, the Sentence software is proposed for the analysis of pulsed thermography and near IR images of composite materials. Furthermore, the Sentence software delivers an end-to-end, user friendly platform for engineers to perform complete manual inspections, as well as tools that allow senior engineers to develop inspection templates and profiles, reducing the requisite thermographic skill level of the operating engineer. Finally, the Sentence software can also offer complete independence of operator decisions by the fully automated "Beep on Defect" detection functionality. The end-to-end automatic inspection system includes sub-systems for defining a panel profile, generating an inspection plan, controlling a robot-arm and capturing thermographic images to detect defects. A statistical model has been built to analyze the entire image, evaluate grey-scale ranges, import sentencing criteria and automatically detect impact damage defects. A full width half maximum algorithm has been used to quantify the flaw sizes. The identified defects are imported into the sentencing engine which then sentences (automatically compares analysis results against acceptance criteria) the inspection by comparing the most significant defect or group of defects against the inspection standards.

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Bin Luo, Bjorn Liebenberg, Jeff Raymont, and SP Santospirito "Automatic thermographic image defect detection of composites", Proc. SPIE 8013, Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXIII, 80130S (10 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.886805

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