In this paper we present and fully describe an experimental system, based on optical triangulation, for fabric quality control purposes in the textile industry, namely for the objective quantification of pilling formation. The chosen settings, together with the criteria used for each parameter of the system, are boarded and were fixed in order to optimize the performance of the implemented dual-scanning system. Four different experiments were carried out to test and characterize the implemented system. Regarding the application of this system, the experimental results obtained for the optical estimation of the pilling formation, on a set of five different fabrics, have been shown to be in agreement with the subjective grade classification, meaning that the implemented dual-scanning system can be used to objectively quantify this parameter.
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