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Robot guided white light interferometry for crack inspection on airplane engine components
Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2014-06-24
Sprache
English
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Institut
Start Page
415
End Page
421
Citation
Proceedings for the Joint Conference of ISR 2014 - 45th International Symposium on Robotics and Robotik 2014 - 8th German Conference on Robotics, ISR/ROBOTIK 2014 (): 415-421 (2014-01-01)
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The state of the art inspection method for cracks in aircraft engine components in the aviation Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) industry is the knowledge based Fluorescent Penetrant Inspection (FPI).It is usually executed manually. This method is on the one hand very reliable regarding the detection probability of cracks, but on the other hand time intensive and the quality of the result is dependent on the particular expertise and condition of the executing worker. This paper introduces a fully automatic and robot guided white light interferometry (WLI) as a future crack inspection system. The focus is set on the adaptive component of that inspection process. Chapter 1 gives a short introduction to the different inspection technologies. In chapter 2 and 3, the overall inspection system setup with the different measuring devices and the inspection process steps are presented. Chapter 4 contains a comparison of different adaptation strategies and focuses on the strategy implemented in the given system. Chapter 5 is a conclusion in which a brief overview of the future work is given.
Subjects
Aircraft engines; Crack detection; Cracks; Engines; Fabry-Perot interferometers; Inspection equipment; Interferometry; Knowledge based systems; Nondestructive examination; Repair; Robotics
Adaptation strategies; Adaptive components; Aviation maintenance; Detection probabilities; Fluorescent penetrant inspections; Inspection process; Inspection technology; White-light interferometry
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DDC Class
600: Technik
620: Ingenieurwissenschaften