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Development Of A Laser-Based Technique For The Assessment Of High Quality Automotive Surfaces, Navraj Heer
Development Of A Laser-Based Technique For The Assessment Of High Quality Automotive Surfaces, Navraj Heer
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The quality of painted surfaces plays an important role in the overall aesthetics of the automotive products. Although a number of quantitative techniques have been developed for this particular type of quality assessment, the solutions proposed so far remain costly and proprietary such that industry continues to rely primarily on qualitative, error-prone human evaluations. To address this, the primary objective of this thesis was to explore the possibility to develop a laser-based technique for the non-tactile quantification of defects in reflective painted surfaces. For this purpose, analytical solutions were formulated to predict the reflection of a laser beam from a …