Journal of Northeastern University(Natural Science) ›› 2024, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (11): 1595-1603.DOI: 10.12068/j.issn.1005-3026.2024.11.010

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Surface Defect Detection of Riveting Holes Based on Improved YOLOv8

Bo HAO1,2, Xin-yan XU1(), Yu-xin ZHAO1, Jun-wei YAN1   

  1. 1.Key Laboratory of Vibration and Control of Aero-Propulsion System,Ministry of Education,Northeastern University,Shenyang 110819,China
    2.School of Control Engineering,Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao,Qinhuangdao 066004,China.
  • Received:2023-06-21 Online:2024-11-15 Published:2025-02-24
  • Contact: Xin-yan XU
  • About author:XU Xin-yan, E-mail: 1035011108@qq.com

Abstract:

The surface quality of riveting holes on aircraft skin, tail and other components is crucial to the overall assembly performance of an aircraft. Currently, most riveting hole defect detection relies on the traditional manual methods, which are prone to missing detection. An improved detection method based on YOLOv8 for surface defect detection of riveting holes was proposed. The conventional convolution was replaced by deformable convolution to solve the problem of the fixed receptive field shape in feature extraction. The SimAM attention mechanism was embedded in order to enhance the recognition ability of the network under low contrast between the background and targets. The CIoU loss function was replaced by the WIoU bounding box regression loss function to reduce the impact of low?quality images during model training and improve the robustness and generalization ability of the model. To verify the performance of the improved model, 6061 aluminum alloy plates with riveting holes were used as a substitute for aircraft skin in the detection process. Experimental results demonstrated that the improved model achieved mAP_0.5 and accuracy of 0.918 and 0.920 on the riveting hole test set, which represents an improvement of 24.1% and 25.3% compared to the original model.

Key words: YOLOv8, riveting hole, defect detection, deformable convolution, attention mechanism

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