The Overview of Intelligent Cloth Inspection Machine
Zhang Chunfeng and Xue Tianyu
Information Engineering, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Keywords: Intelligent, Inspection Machine, Overview.
Abstract: Now many textile companies to use more fabric defect detection testing methods of doing in front of the
player, and Inspection Machine operation is based on a series of operations of the analog signal, the traditional
Inspection Machine in the staff up to 200 defects found within one hour attention of staff to maintain up to
20-30 minutes, more than this time staff will produce fatigue, speed manual fabric inspection is only 5-20 m
/ min, more than this rate staff will appear leak test. This not only affects human health, but also reduces
productivity. This paper presents the concept of Intelligent Cloth Inspection Machine, and takes a brief
description, in order to have a new breakthrough in the study of late.
1 INTRODUCTION
Inspection Machine is a necessary equipment for
detecting a former garment industry production of
cotton, wool, linen, silk, chemical fiber and other
special large format, double-width and single fabric.
Process of Inspection Machine includes defect
detection, straight, playing volume series of
processes. It is mainly used to test the thick material,
heavy cloth, oxford cloth, comb weaving material,
fabric inspection, Chubb, the amount of code, rolling
and folding. Types of Inspection Machine include:
knitting Inspection Machine, weaving Inspection
Machine, no tension test volume, multifunction
Inspection Machine, needle shed dual Inspection
Machine, denim Inspection Machine, weaving comb
Inspection Machine (Chung-Feng Jeffrey Kuo,
2009).
Overseas Inspection Machine has been used as a
relatively mature textile equipment, while research in
all aspects of domestic Inspection Machine is not
mature, and cannot keep up the pace of development
of textile industry.
2 COMPARISON OF
TRADITIONAL AND
INTELLIGENT CLOTH
INSPECTION MACHINE
2.1 Method of Operation about
Inspection Machine
(I) The Traditional Cloth Inspection Machine
provides hardware environment, continuous
segments expand fabrics, and adequate light
source; by sight of the operator, we can
acknowledge cloth and color defects, and
Inspection Machine autocomplete remember long
and package finishing work (Chung-Feng Jeffrey
Kuo, 2008).
(II) Intelligent Cloth Inspection Machine with
intelligent defect detection device, image
acquisition and analysis system in real time,
images and detect defects circumstances collected
is transmitted to IPC, IPC analysis by the outcome
of the Inspection Machine sends commands to
control test boot volume machine, reverse, brake
and other operations.
2.2 The Basic Structure of Inspection
Machine
2.2.1 The Traditional Inspection Machine
The basic structure of a Traditional Cloth Inspection
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DOI: 10.5220/0006027804270430
In Proceedings of the Information Science and Management Engineering III (ISME 2015), pages 427-430
ISBN: 978-989-758-163-2
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Machine includes:
1) Fabric back solution, shuffling and re-winding
device
2) The inspection cloth station, a light source
3) Mnemonic devices
4) Fabric finishing equipment
5) Start, reverse and brake units
Figure 1: The Traditional Inspection Machine.
2.2.2 The Intelligent Inspection Machine
Intelligent Cloth Inspection Machine includes post-
mortem cloth station, master-slave motor, inverter,
IPC, image acquisition and analysis system, tension
sensor, record length and so on (K. L. Mak, P. Peng,
2008).
Figure 2: The structure.
2.3 The Advantages of the Intelligent
Inspection Machine
The Traditional Cloth Inspection Machine offers
hardware environment of cloth inspection,
continuous segments expand fabrics, and adequate
light source; by sight of the operator, we can
acknowledge cloth and color defects, the Traditional
Cloth Inspection Machine autocompletes remember
long and package finishing work (Radovan
Stojanovic, 2001). The Intelligent Cloth Inspection
Machine with the image acquisition and analysis
system in the cloth inspection process is completed
by the embedded real-time system control image
acquisition and complete defecting detection, and
then to collect the images and defect detection
situation through Ethernet port to the industrial
machine, thereby industrial machine interface
displays real-time images captured and defect
detection of cases, additionally there will be operation
buttons for Inspection Machine, such as start, reverse,
brake. Whereby the cloth inspection speed, quality,
efficiency is greatly improved.
3 THE PRELIMINARY DESIGN
OF INTELLIGENT CLOTH
INSPECTION MACHINE
Fabric imported by the main motor drive mechanism
through cloth inspection table, and then by the motor
pulled into the take-up roll. Cloth inspection table
offers image acquisition and analysis system for real-
time image capture on canvas and defect detection via
Ethernet port transfers the result to the IPC, the Live
View image on the cloth IPC, and test roll machine
control.
Figure 3: The preliminary design.
I. Textile, printing and dyeing step is to test the
volume of the original fabric (newly produced, the
more disorderly loose cloth), after inspection /
repair after error, roll into a roll, and then go to the
next step. Throughout the process, more difficult
to solve the problem is the tension in the cloth roll
cloth process, since the cloth tension directly
Reducer
DriveDrive
Reducer
IPC
Suction
side
Into the
fabric
Image acquisitio n
and analysis
system
Tension
Sensor
Coiling
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affects the quality of cloth and remember long
problem (Hyung Taek Choi, Sung Hoon Jeong,
2001). The Intelligent Cloth Inspection Machine
through real-time communication between the
drive and the IPC, as well as coordination tension
sensor in a timely manner to control the motor
speed, so that the tension of the cloth process
requirements:
II. Fabric with a certain laxity by cloth inspection
table;
III. It sometimes requires motor reversal, in order to
find the defect quickly, then it should still
maintain fabric original relaxed state;
IV. It finds defects or faults when fast braking.
(2) Traditional Cloth Inspection Machines are both
fabric comptroller function, but mostly Inspection
Machine uses a drive unit, the fabric pulled
directly from the drive roller inspection table cloth
through, so easy to cause the fabric stretched so
that the comptroller is not accurate, to thin ,
especially elastic fabric. In demanding situations,
the use of loose type transmission, enabling the
fabric to maintain a certain slack in cloth
inspection process to ensure that the Comptroller,
accurate defect detection to meet the
requirements:
① accurate record length
② normal fabric, latitude and longitude lines without
distortion.
Traditional machines for the introduction of a single
motor drag tension transmission; in order to achieve
no tension control, transmission control scheme was
redesigned by controlling the main drag of the motor
speed difference from the two to achieve a loose style
fabric inspection.
(3) Defects of Traditional Cloth Inspection Machine
are often found by a manual operation, fewer
defects detected, slow-mortem cloth, and fabric
inspection work will cause fatigue over a certain
time, then these factors can cause the error
detection, the problem of the leakage test. The
image acquisition and analysis system of
Intelligent Cloth Inspection Machine in the cloth
inspection process is completed by the embedded
real-time system control image acquisition and
complete defect detection, and then to collect the
images and defect detection situation through
Ethernet port to the industrial machine, industrial
machine interface displays real-time images
captured and defecting detection of cases, there
will be operation buttons for Inspection Machine,
such as start, reverse, brake. Whereby the cloth
inspection speed, quality, efficiency is greatly
improved.
4 CONCLUSIONS
With China's accession to WTO, relationships of the
domestic textile manufacturers and international
famous brand clothing sales business have become
more closely, while fabric quality problems and
disputes are more and more accurate and reliable
testing methods and equipment of fabric close related
to the fate of the textile industry and the
competitiveness of the international market.
Requiring the use of Intelligent Cloth Inspection
Machine, on the one hand to improve the defect
detection rate, accuracy, on the other hand to improve
labor productivity, reduce the number of
employment; to adapt to WTO competition on the
textile, printing and dyeing industries.
Intelligent Cloth Inspection Machine, it can
replace the manual, automatic fabric inspection and
grading, cut open, to defect to play tag. Intelligent
Cloth Inspection Machine is controlled by the IPC,
relied on image acquisition and analysis system fabric
inspection, the general fabric inspection speeds of up
to 120 m / min, defects were found in the screen that
can display and reporting, speed is quick and
Intelligent Cloth Inspection Machine can adapt to the
high frequency of defects or new defect infrequent.
Application of Intelligent Cloth Inspection Machine
can classify the fabric, and achieve the subject fabric
defect statistics, storage capabilities. Intelligent Cloth
Inspection Machine to automate testing the fabric of
the road, I believe that I will be for some time through
continued research efforts, intelligent inspection
technology will walk into the textile fabric
enterprises, an important part of automated form.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This research was financially supported by Beijing
Institute of Fashion Technology 2014 university
innovation team project: Integration of
electromechanical equipment test volume based on
computer vision; Item Number: 2014A-27
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