Eggplant Grading System Including Rotary Tray Assisted Machine Vision Whole Fruit Inspection

  • KONDO Naoshi
    The Japanese Society of Agricultural Machinery SI Seiko Co., Ltd. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ehime University
  • NINOMIYA Kazunori
    SI Seiko Co., Ltd.
  • KAMATA Junzo
    SI Seiko Co., Ltd.
  • CHONG Vui Kiong
    The Japanese Society of Agricultural Machinery Graduate School of Environmental Science, Okayama University
  • MONTA Mitsuji
    The Japanese Society of Agricultural Machinery Graduate School of Environmental Science, Okayama University
  • TING K. C.
    Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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  • 果実全面の画像検査を可能としたロータリトレイを有するナス選果システム

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Because the capability of inspecting all sides of each fruit has become a highly desirable feature of a grading system, a new type of rotary tray was developed, as a part of a grading line, to flip a fruit over during quality inspection by color and monochrome machine vision systems. Each grading line consisted of 348 rotary trays and ran at a speed of 38.1m/min. Since this grading machine had 6 lines, it was capable of sorting a total of 504, 000 fruits per day. However, the processing rate of this grading system has reached only 85% of the expected level, because of the operator's fruit unpacking rate. The automated packing and unpacking systems were considered to provide the grading system a fruit tracing capability in addition to labor saving.

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