Industrial Inspection and Reverse Engineering

Abstract

We propose a new design for inspection and reverse engineering environments. We have designed and experimented with such an environment for capturing sense data of mechanical parts in an intelligent way. We construct a sensing CAD interface for the automatic reconstruction of parts from visual data. We briefly discuss the use of the dynamic recursive finite state machine (DRFSM) as a new discrete event dynamic system (DEDS) tool for controlling inspection and exploration. We also implement a graphical interface for designing DRFSM DEDS controllers.

• Introduction
• Sensing Strategy
• Sensing CAD Interface
  • Contours to Splines
  • Thinning Contours
• Experiments
  • Methodology for Inspection and Reverse Engineering
  • Control Process Experiment
  • Model-Building Experiment
• Summary
  • Completed activities
• Conclusions
• Bibliography
• References
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