Hello LinkedIn Community! I am happy to share with you, the great work that MME graduate students are up to!
Please meet Lucas Botelho, one of our Doctoral students in the Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering program, here at the University of Waterloo!
My research is aimed to improve monitoring of high temperature manufacturing processes, such as laser additive manufacturing, heat treatment, and welding with the aid of computer vision and machine learning. Combining visible light measurements and infrared light measurements allow for both the geometry and microstructure of the part to be predicted in real-time. These real-time measurements of the current state of the process can then be used to predict future states and minimize the error before it accumulates. Thus, allowing for higher quality products to be built through these manufacturing processes, with a lower rejection rate and minimized need for post-processing. The monitoring system developed in this research was used to create the sensor featured in the MOC system by Retinex Inc. (https://lnkd.in/d8Pbtt7K)
