The invention relates to the technical field of
composite material digital detection, in particular to a
composite material skin grinding amount calculation method based on clustering analysis and a symbolic distance field, which specifically comprises the following steps: acquiring three-dimensional measurement data of the surface of a
composite material skin, and designing a three-dimensional
measurement point feature descriptor; based on the feature descriptors, a clustering analysis
algorithm is designed, and a
grinding area three-dimensional measuring point class and a non-
grinding area three-dimensional measuring point class are divided; aiming at the three-dimensional measuring points of the non-grinding area, carrying out implicit curved
surface reconstruction based on a
radial basis function; aiming at the three-dimensional measuring point of the grinding area, a grinding area symbol distance field is constructed, and the symbol distance is the grinding amount of the measuring point; according to the method, the problem that in the prior art, profile tolerance
estimation cannot be obtained during aircraft CAD
mathematical model is solved, the grinding allowance of the aircraft
skin repairing area can be accurately analyzed, and
aircraft maintenance personnel are guided to conduct grinding. Compared with a traditional method for judging the profile tolerance based on manual touch, the method has the advantages that interference of human subjective factors is eliminated, the grinding allowance is quantified, and the precision is higher.