Research on the Forming Detection Technology of Shell Plates Based on Laser Scanning

In order to solve the problems of low efficiency and insufficient accuracy of the traditional manual template method in the forming detection of shell plates, a digital solution based on laser scanning detection system was proposed. By introducing a six-degree-of-freedom robotic arm and a high-precision line laser sensor to build a three-dimensional detection platform, a digital template method framework including data acquisition, point cloud registration, surface reconstruction, and deviation analysis was innovatively constructed. A point cloud non-penetration registration algorithm fused with boundary geometric information was proposed. Based on the improved Delaunay triangulation algorithm, the surface is reconstructed and the digital template is extracted. Experimental verification shows that the method achieves an accuracy of less than 1 mm of error in the detection of outer plates, shortens the single detection time to less than 10 min, and improves the detection efficiency by more than 75% compared with the traditional method.