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This paper aims to focus on an arc welding robot used to weld the bead of the hydraulic bracket\u2019s box structure and explores a method for online assessment and measurement of the weld bead gap using laser vision.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>First, a binocular laser vision measurement system was developed to meet the requirements for measuring weld gaps at various positions within the box structure. Second, the images of weld gaps from these structures were collected to create data sets for both a classification network and a semantic segmentation network, evaluating and comparing each model. Finally, the MobileNet V2 network was selected to assess the validity of the welding gap, and the optimized DeepLab V3+ network was used to design the welding gap measurement algorithm.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Findings<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The results indicate that the accuracy of MobileNet V2 is 95.43% and the response time is about 1.72\u2009s. 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