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TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER TITLE NO. ABSTRACT (TAMIL) ABSTRACT (ENGLISH) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES NO. iii iv v x xi PAGE

INTRODUCTION 1.1 1.2 1.3 AIM OF THE PROJECT NEED FOR THE PROJECT SCOPE OF THE PROJECT

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LITERATURE SURVEY 2.1 SUMMARY

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GRINDING PROCESS 3.1 3.2 GRINDING GRINDING WHEEL 3.2.1 3.3 3.4 Selection of grinding wheels

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TYPES OF ABRASIVES GRINDING WHEEL LOADING

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3.4.1 3.4.2
3.5

Effects of grinding wheel loading Factors influencing grinding wheel loading

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DRESSING OF GRINDING WHEEL

MACHINE VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING 4.1 4.2 MACHINE VISION FUNCTIONAL BLOCK DIAGRAM OF MACHINE VISION SYSTEM IMAGE PROCESSING 4.3.1 4.3.2 4.3.3 4.3.4 4.3.5 Image acquisition and digitization Enhancement/Preprocessing Segmentation Code/Feature Extraction Image Analysis/Classification/Interpretation

12 12 13

4.3

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MONITORING OF WHEEL LOADING AND DRESSING THROUGH MACHINE VISION SYSTEM 5.1 EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED FOR THE MONITORING OF WHEEL LOADING AND WHEEL DRESSSING ON MILD STEEL SPECIMEN PROGRAMME FOR GLOABL THRESHOLDING WITH A THRESHOLD RANGE USING MATALB RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS FOR EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED ON MILD STEEL EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED FOR THE MONITORING OF WHEEL LOADING ON HCHCR

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5.2 5.5 5.6

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STEEL SPECIMEN 5.7 RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS FOR EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED ON HCHCR STEEL 25

MONITORING OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS (WITH RESPECT TO WHEEL LOADING WITH THE AID OF MACHINE VISION SYSTEM) 6.1 OPTIMISATION OF DEPTH OF CUT AND FEED FOR SURFACE GRINDING ON HCHCR STEEL RESULTS FOR CONDITIONS OPTIMISED CUTTING

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6.2

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6.3 6.4

EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED TO RELATE SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND WHEEL LOADING RESULTS FOR RELATING ROUGHNESS AND WHEEL LOADING SURFACE

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DEVELOPMENT OF ANN (ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK) MODEL TO PREDICT SURFACE ROUGHNESS 7.1 MONITORING OF SURFACE THROUGH ANN MODEL ROUGHNESS

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7.2 7.3 7.4 8

NEURAL NETWORK DESIGN AND TRAINING RESULTS OF ANN MODEL VALIDATION OF ANN MODEL

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ONLINE MONITORING OF WHEEL LOADING AND WHEEL DRESSING

8.1 8.2

DEVELOPED A PROGRAMME FOR ONLINE MONITOING OF WHEEL LOADING AND DRESSING

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PROGRAMME PREPARED ON MATLAB FOR ONLINE MONITORING PURPOSE EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED USING VEHO USB MICROSCOPE TO VERIFY THE PROGRAMME RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS COST ESTIMATION

8.3 8.4 8.5 9

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CONCLUSION 9.1 SCOPE FOR FUTURE WORK REFERENCES