VISVESVARAYA TEHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

“Jnana Sangama”, Belagavi-590 014, Karnataka

PROJECT REPORT
On
“TOOL CONDITION MONITORING USING CCH CODE TECHNIQUE
AND MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS BASED PIXEL MATCHING”
Submitted in the partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the Degree of

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING
IN
ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
Submitted by:
Meghana B S (1EW14EC072)
Akshay K (1EW14EC005)
Harsha Jayarama (1EW14EC036)
Bharath N (1EW14EC017)
Under the Guidance of
Mr. ANAND M
Associate Professor
Dept of ECE, EWIT, BANGALORE

DEPARTMENT OF
ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
EAST WEST INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
BANGALORE – 560 091
2017-2018
 EAST WEST INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
No.63, Off. Magadi Road, Vishwaneedam Post, Bangalore – 560 091
(Affiliated To Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum)

DEPARTMENT OF
ELECTRONICS ND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the project work entitled “Tool condition monition using CCH
code technique and morphological operations based pixel matching” presented by
Meghana B S (1EW14EC072), Akshay K (1EW14EC005), Harsha Jayarama
(1EW14EC036), Bharath N (1EW14EC017), bonafide students of EAST WEST
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Bangalore, in partial fulfillment for the award of
Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering
of Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, during the year 2017-2018. It is
certified that all corrections/suggestions indicated for Internal Assessment have been
incorporated in the report. The project work has been approved as it satisfies the
academic requirements in respect of project work prescribed for the said degree.

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Signature of guide Signature of HOD Signatrure of Principal

Mr. Anand M Dr. S G Hiremath Dr. K Chennakeshavalu
Assoc. Prof, Dept of Prof & Head, Dept. of Principal
ECE ECE

External Viva
Name of the examiners Signature with date
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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The satisfaction that accompanies the successful completion of any task would
be incomplete without mentioning the people who made it possible and whose constant
support, guidance and encouragement crowned our effort with success.
First and foremost, we would like to express our sincere words of gratitude and
respect to the organization EAST WEST INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,
Bangalore, for providing us an opportunity to carry out our project work.
We thank the principal, Dr. K. CHANNAKESHAVALU, East West Institute
of Technology, Bangalore, for providing us with all facilities that helped us to carry out
the work easily.
We would like to express our deepest thanks to Dr. S G HIREMATH, Head of
Department, Electronics and Communication Engineering, for hi support and
encouragement.
We are very grateful to our guide MR. ANAND M Assoc.Professor, Department of
Electronics and Communication Engineering, fir his insightful comments and fir sharing with
us his knowledge and experience. I really appreciate his help to improve the quality of our
project work and report.
We are extremely thankful to our project coordinators, Mrs. PRAMILA B, Assoc.
Prof, Mr. NAVEEN KUMAR B K, Asst. Prof and Mrs. BHAGYA Asst. Prof, Department
of Electronics and Communication Engineering for having monitored the development of
project, setting up precise dead line.
Finally, we express our sincere thanks to our family, well-wishers and friends for their
constant moral support and encouragement that helped us immensely in the completion of the
project work.

MEGHANA B S (1EW14EC072)
AKSHAY K (1EW14EC005)
HARSHA JAYARAMA (1EW14EC036)
BHARATH N (1EW14EC017)

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 ABSTRACT
Tool condition in various machining processes directly affects the quality of machined
surfaces. Tool condition needs to be monitored with the purpose of evaluating the tool life and
timely replacing it, if it is not in favorable condition. Since both lathe tool and the workpiece
are made up of high speed steel, they get eroded when they are made to come in contact with
one another at high speed respectively. The present work focuses on monitoring of tool
condition through image processing. The images of the single point turning lathe tool have
been captured before and after machining by a machine vision system. These images of the
single point lathe tool are processed using MATLAB image processing toolbox software and
tool condition has been evaluated. Different methods, i.e., Chain code, pixel matching and
morphological operations have been implemented for extracting the shape of the tool.
Depending upon the shape of the tool, it has been classified as ‘Normal, or ‘Worn’ and then it
is decided whether the tool is applicable for the next operation or if it has to be replaced with
new one.

Keywords: Machine Vision System; Digital Image Processing; Pattern Recognition; Chain
Code; Chain Code Histogram (CCH); Pixel matching and Morphological operations

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