P5.4 - Thermal pattern generation for infrared deflectometry

Event
AMA Conferences 2013
2013-05-14 - 2013-05-16
Nürnberg
Band
Proceedings SENSOR 2013
Chapter
P5 - Optical Sensors
Author(s)
S. Höfer - Institut für Anthropomatik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) (Germany), S. Werling, J. Beyerer - Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik, Karlsruhe (Germany)
Pages
785 - 790
DOI
10.5162/sensor2013/P5.4
ISBN
978-3-9813484-3-9
Price
free

Abstract

Operating in the visible spectrum, the method of deflectometry provides reliable surface-slope measurements. We present the extension of the method to the thermal infrared (IR) spectrum, thus enabling the deflectometric inspection of rough surfaces and objects made of transparent and nonspecular materials. Since affordable technologies to create code patterns in the thermal IR do not exist, we propose a novel method to produce large-scale dynamic thermal patterns with the help of a powerful laser. In addition, we adapted coded pattern techniques to our setup and present the results of deflectometric measurements.

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