MEASURING CHARACTERISTIC PARAMETERS OF FORM GRINDING WHEELS USED FOR MICRODRILL FLUTING BY COMPUTER VISION

Abstract

This study aims at measuring the characteristic parameters of form grinding wheels used for microdrill fluting, whose wheel contours are specially made up of combinations of multiple curves. With the aid of the indirect duplication of wheel contours and by using computer vision, this paper presents a systematic process for the wheel contour measurement. The measuring process includes five sequential steps: the edge detection, the straight line detection, the contour separation, the circular arc fitting, and the circular arc angle evaluation. To test the proposed measuring process, a measuring apparatus was built, and experiments measuring the characteristic parameters of diamond grinding wheels used for microdrill fluting were conducted. It showed that the proposed measuring process was feasible to measure the characteristic parameters of certain form grinding wheels used for microdrill fluting.