Modeling of pulsed GTAW based on multi‐sensor fusion

Purpose – Welding process is a complicated process influenced by many interference factors, a single sensor cannot get information describing welding process roundly. This paper simultaneously uses different sensors to get different information about the welding process, and uses multi‐sensor information fusion technology to fuse the different information. By using multi‐sensors, this paper aims to describe the welding process more precisely.Design/methodology/approach – Electronic and welding pool image information are, respectively, obtained by arc sensor and image sensor, then electronic signal processing and image processing algorithms are used to extract the features of the signals, the features are then fused by neural network to predict the backside width of weld pool.Findings – Comparative experiments show that the multi‐sensor fusion technology can predict the weld pool backside width more precisely.Originality/value – The multi‐sensor fusion technology is used to fuse the different information o...

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