Industrial Inspection and Reverse Engineering

Tarek M. Sobh, J. Owen, C. Jaynes, M. Dekhil, and T. C. Henderson

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 discuss the use of the dynamic recursive context for finite state machines (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
• Methodology
  • Intelligent Control
  • Sensing for Intelligent Control
• Model Building for Reverse Engineering
  • Modeler
  • 2-D Contours 3-D Contours
  • Contours to Arcs and Lines
  • Arcs and Lines to Machined Features
• Experiments
  • Control Process Experiments
  • Model-Building Experiment
• Summary
• Conclusions and Future Work
• References
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