Cole Farris

Mr. Cole Farris


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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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22 September 2025 in Sensors
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GMGarrett Madison
Garrett Madison
GGGrayson Griser
Grayson Griser
GTGage Truelson
Gage Truelson
CFCole Farris
Cole Farris
CCChristopher Lee Colaw
Christopher Lee Colaw
Yildirim HurmuzluYildirim Hurmuzlu
Yildirim Hurmuzlu
Foreign object debris (FOd) in rivet holes, machined holes, and fastener sites poses a critical risk to aerospace manufacturing, where current inspections rely on manual visual checks with flashlights and mirrors. These methods are slow, fatiguing, and prone to error. This work introduces HANNDI, a compact handheld inspection device that integrates controlled optics, illumination, and onboard deep learning for rapid and reliable inspection directly on the factory floor. The system performs focal sweeps, aligns and fuses the images into an all-in-focus representation, and applies a dual CNN pipeline based on the YOLO architecture: one network detects and localizes holes, while the other classifies debris. All training images were collected with the prototype, ensuring consistent geometry and lighting. On a withheld test set from a proprietary ≈3700 image dataset of aerospace assets, HANNDI achieved per-class precision and recall near 95%. An end-to-end demonstration on representative aircraft parts yielded an effective task time of 13.6 s per hole. To our knowledge, this is the first handheld automated optical inspection system that combines mechanical enforcement of imaging geometry, controlled illumination, and embedded CNN inference, providing a practical path toward robust factory floor deployment.