6 February 2024 Improved YOLO-based laser stripe region extraction method for welding robots
Limei Song, Shuopeng Wang, Yunpeng Li, Qile Zhang, Mengya Liu
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Abstract

Real-time image processing and regions of interest extraction are crucial in the non-standard welding process guided by structured light vision. However, due to the impact of detection speed, accuracy, and applicability, existing methods are difficult to apply directly. To address these issues, we have screened various improvement methods through experiments and provided a practical lightweight algorithm, YOLO-DGB, based on YOLOv5s, a current mainstream object detection algorithm. The proposed algorithm introduces depthwise separable convolution and Ghost modules into the backbone network to reduce the number of parameters and floating-point operations per second (FLOPs) in the detection process. To meet the accuracy requirements of the detection network, a bottleneck transformer is introduced after the spatial pyramid pooling fast, which improves the detection effect while ensuring a reasonable number of parameters and computation. To address the issue of insufficient datasets, we propose an improved DCGAN network to enhance the collected images. Compared with the original YOLOv5s network, our proposed algorithm reduces the number of parameters and FLOPs by 35.5% and 44.8%, respectively, while increasing the mAP of the model from 96.5% to 98.1%. Experimental results demonstrate that our algorithm can effectively meet the requirements of actual production processes.

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Limei Song, Shuopeng Wang, Yunpeng Li, Qile Zhang, and Mengya Liu "Improved YOLO-based laser stripe region extraction method for welding robots," Journal of Electronic Imaging 33(1), 013038 (6 February 2024). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.33.1.013038
Received: 23 May 2023; Accepted: 12 January 2024; Published: 6 February 2024
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KEYWORDS
Object detection

Convolution

Laser welding

Robots

Detection and tracking algorithms

Performance modeling

Education and training

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