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PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE
Edited by: J. Pombo
Paper 10.19

Pre-Grinding Surface Defect Identification using Supervised Machine-Learning and Laser Triangulation Data

A. Gharaei, F. Mauz and A. Andres

Institute for Machine Tools and Manufacturing, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

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A. Gharaei, F. Mauz, A. Andres, "Pre-Grinding Surface Defect Identification using Supervised Machine-Learning and Laser Triangulation Data", in J. Pombo, (Editor), "Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, Online volume: CCC 1, Paper 10.19, 2022, doi:10.4203/ccc.1.10.19
Keywords: This paper proposes a novel technique to identify rail surface defects using laser triangulation optoNCDT 2300-10LL. Two defect types, squat and flaking, are artificially applied on the surface of a rotary steel ring setup. Various supervised binary classification algorithms are implemented, and their performance in defect identification are compared against each other. Linear classifiers, Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), are observed to be the most performant. The results also show that in spite of 2-dimensional longitudinal measurement, the collected sensory data can be used effectively to detect defects and potentially be extended to other types along with consideration of multiclassification..

Abstract
rail surface defects, laser triangulation sensor, automated defect detection, supervised classification, feature analysis, machine learning

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