Scientific Reports (May 2022)

A detection and configuration method for welding completeness in the automotive body-in-white panel based on digital twin

  • Hao Li,
  • Bing Li,
  • Gen Liu,
  • Xiaoyu Wen,
  • Haoqi Wang,
  • Xiaocong Wang,
  • Shuai Zhang,
  • Zhongshang Zhai,
  • Wenchao Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11440-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Abstract To address the problems of poor welding completeness and inefficient configuration for defective automotive body-in-white panels, we propose a method for detecting and configuring the welding completeness of automotive body-in-white panels based on digital twin (DT) and mixed reality (MR). The method uses DT to build an MR-oriented DT framework for the detections and configuration of body-in-white panel welding completeness. We propose a method to build a DT knowledge base for panels, a Yolov4-based welding completeness detection method, and a MR-based configuration method for the welding completeness in panels. Our team develop a panel welding completeness detection and configuration system to fully validate the effectiveness of the method.