简介:Duetothedisturbancesofspatters,dustsandstrongarclight,itisdifficulttodetectthemoltenpooledgeandtheweldlinelocationinCO2weldingprocesses.Themedianfilteringandself-multiplicationwasemployedtopreprocesstheimageoftheCO2weldinginordertodetecteffectivelytheedgeofmoltenpoolandthelocationofweldline.TheB-splinewaveletalgorithmhasbeeninvestigated,theinfluenceofdifferentscalesandthresholdsontheresultsoftheedgedetectionhavebeencomparedandanalyzed.TheexperimentalresultsshowthatbetterperformancetoextracttheedgeofthemoltenpoolandthelocationofweldlinecanbeobtainedbyusingtheB-splinewavelettransform.Theproposededgedetectionapproachcanbefurtherappliedtothecontrolofmoltendepthandtheseamtracking.