Development of Automatic Image Processing System for Grinding Wheel Surface (Continued report): Mapping of Cutting Edges and Its Application to the Analysis of Turing Process

This report deals with the useful software program built for the previously developed automatic image processing system so that the characteristics of the wheel surface consisted of a great number of cutting edges beyond one thousand can be grasped more easily. The program is mainly realized by three kinds of utilities; a) the wheel surface viewer can display about 30 micro-scope images on CRT display at the same time in order to judge the condition of wear land of cutting edges at a glance, b) the cutting edge list can be used to estimate the change of cutting edges in the processes of truing, dressing and grinding, c) the cutting edge map can show visibly the position and the distribution of all the cutting edges on the whole wheel surface and clarify the difference of cutting edges before and after the processes. The new utilities are ascertained available in the experiment for following the behaviors of cutting edges in actually truing process.