The circular-scanning algorithm in laser marking based on mathematical morphology: Design and implementation

Laser processing has excellent processing performance, making the laser processing technology used widely, bringing huge economic benefits. An efficient algorithm of circular scanning and the corresponding design and implementation in laser marking will be introduced in this article. The algorithm is based on mathematical morphological, and realized on Visual c++ and GDI+ platform. The distance of the scanning line we got in the original graphic is in accordance with our expectation, and the scanning time is not more than 0.1s. Such stability and accuracy is originated from the core portion of the algorithm that is one-step scanning which makes each closed contour widen inspired by the thought of corrosion expansion algorithm and is aplicable to any curves so that assure reliability, such widen size is in accordance to scanning distance setted by users. This article can be divided into three parts: basics introduction, algorithm design, implementation. The results of numerous circular-scanning examples verify the effectiveness of the algorithm.