Non-contact online inspection method for the appearance diameter uniformity of chemical fiber filaments

Abstract

Abstract As chemical fiber filaments diameter variation directly affects spinning quality, spinning condition monitoring becomes more and more important in an intelligent manufacturing environment. Firstly, based on the single-slit Fraunhofer diffraction model and the Babinet principle, the non-contact filaments diffraction model is developed to generate diffraction fringe patterns by irradiating chemical fiber filaments with He–Ne laser. Secondly, for the characteristics of diffraction fringe patterns, a segmentation mask window-based diffraction fringe center of gravity extraction method is proposed, and a zero-phase Butterworth low-pass filter is designed and applied to the diffraction light intensity curves to accurately extract the extreme points positions of the adjacent dark fringe and calculate the diameter information. Finally, the non-contact chemical fiber filaments appearance diameter online inspection experiment platform is built to carry out static and dynamic experiments of filaments. The experimental results show that the maximum absolute value of absolute error is less than 1.1 μm for static measurement and less than 10 μm for dynamic measurement.