ON-LINE MEASUREMENT OF THE RESIN INFUSION FLOW VARIABLES USING ARTIFICIAL VISION TECHNOLOGIES

This paper aims to use artificial vision technologies to measure the resin infusion flow variables. In particular, in this paper is used different artificial vision technologies, visible camera to sense the filling process, IR camera to sense the cure process and a projector to show onto the mould whatever interesting information to carry out the manufacturing process. The devices union is called of Artificial Vision Package (AVP). In this work, the AVP is used as an inverse engineering tool. For a given mould, camera and laser mesh it. By the use of this mesh, and optimization tool computes the optimal channel distribution. This channel is projected into the mould for the proper location. In the injection and curing stage, cameras in the visible and infrared spectrum provide information about the goodness of the process.