Skeleton surface generation from volumetric models of thin plate structures for industrial applications

  • Authors:
  • Hiromasa Suzuki;Tomoyuki Fujimori;Takashi Michikawa;Yasuhiko Miwata;Noriyuki Sadaoka

  • Affiliations:
  • Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan;Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan;Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan;Toyota Motor Corp., Japan;Hitachi Ltd., Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th IMA international conference on Mathematics of surfaces XII
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Computed Tomography (CT) is a powerful non-destructive measurement technology to generate cross-sectional X-ray images of objects, fromwhich three-dimensional volumetricmodels can be constructed. In this study, we focus on industrial applications for X-ray CT in the analysis of thin plate structures, and propose in particular a method to generate sufficiently accurate skeleton meshes from a volumetric model of a thin plate structure. We use a geodesic-based skeletonization algorithm to extract skeleton cells, which can then be contoured to generate a skeleton surface. Since the thin plate structure has junctions, the skeleton surface is non-manifold around these areas. Because of this, the Marching Cubes algorithm is extended to enable handling ofmultiple labels (signs) to generate non-manifoldmeshes. The generatedmesh is optimized to pass through the mid of the plate by interpolating mapping. Some experimental results for industrial samples are shown using our implemented prototype system, and it is proven that the accuracy of the generated mesh is sufficient for industrial applications.