Artificial neural networks for automated quality control of textile seams

✍ Scribed by Claus Bahlmann; Gunther Heidemann; Helge Ritter

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 797 KB
• Volume: 32
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0031-3203
• DOI: 10.1016/s0031-3203(98)00128-9

✦ Synopsis

We present a method for an automated quality control of textile seams, which is aimed to establish a standardized quality measure and to lower costs in manufacturing. The system consists of a suitable image acquisition setup, an algorithm for locating the seam, a feature extraction stage and a neural network of the self-organizing map type for feature classification. A procedure to select an optimized feature set carrying the information relevant for classification is described.