Proto Manufacturing Ltd.

$37,000.00 CAD

≈ 6 months of average Canadian pay
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Industrial Research Assistance Program – AI Assist
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2025-2026
Agreement period
June 1, 2025 – January 8, 2026
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2025-2026-Q1-1029958

Published purpose

The goal of this project is to develop a fully-automated product for use in the quality inspection of turbine blades using the X-ray Laue technique. For some time, the missing link in bringing such a product to market has been the intervention of an operator when determining the orientations of the grain(s) being imaged. This project would build upon proof-of-concept examples in the literature, whereby a feed-forward neural network is trained to extract the orientations of one or more crystal grains from a synchrotron Laue image, and apply this approach to the analysis of laboratory Laue images (which are qualitatively lower-resolution).

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