Three Dimensional Analysis of a Grinding Wheel Surface with Image Processing

Abstract

It is very important to measure a grinding wheel surface topography. Therefore a three dimensional measurement system of grinding wheel surface with image processing has been proposed. This system can evaluate a variety of the wheel surface topographies. For example, a histogram of the area or the shape of cutting edges and the distribution map of every shape of cutting edges were obtained. In this paper, a three dimensional model of the cutting edges and a correlation between the state of the wheel surface and grinding mark on the workpiece are reported and the effectiveness is evaluated through an experiment.