• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1858-1861
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• 2005

Automatic nut sorting machine used to calculate the size of inserted nut and detect the black spot defection is introduced in this paper. Because most of farm products are imported from the underdeveloped countries, domestic farm products have no place to be sold in market. To overcome this critical situation, lowering the productivity cost is strongly demanded to compete with foreign corps. Imaged processed nut sorting algorithm is developed to the automatic nut sorting machine to remove the sorting time which takes lots of man power. This system is composed of mainly two parts, mechanical parts and vision system. The purpose of mechanical part is supplying the nuts automatically to make computer system capture the images of objects. Simplified mechanical system was assembled followed by 3D simulation by Pro/E design for the adaptive cost effects. Several image processing algorithms are designed to detect the spot defects and calculate the size of nuts. Test algorithm shows good results to the designed automatic nut sorting system.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2001년도 추계학술발표논문집 (하)
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• pp.1217-1220
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• 2001

우편물의 자동구분은 우편물을 OVIS(OCR-Video coding Integrated System)에 자동으로 공급하고 우편물의 수취인 주소영역을 카메라를 이용하여 획득한 다음 우편번호를 인식하여 바코드로 변환하여 인쇄하게 되고, 이 우편물은 LSM(Letter Sorting Machine)으로 보내져 BCR(Bar Code Reader)에 의해 인쇄된 바코드를 판독하여 행선지별로 구분하는 과정을 거친다. 주소의 번지 이하 부분은 배달원의 수작업에 의해 최종 배달지점 순서대로 정렬한 다음 배달하게 된다. 이 부분의 작업에 소요되는 시간은 배달원 일일 평균 4 시간에 달하며 원가절감 대상으로 지적되고 있다. 이 부분을 자동화하여 우편물 처리시간을 단축하고 생산성을 향상하는 방안이 대두되고 있으며, 이를 해결하기 위해 번지 부분까지 OCR을 이용, 인식하여 우편번호 및 순로 데이터 베이스에서 인식결과에 해당하는 코드를 추출하여 해당 구분 칸으로 우편물을 분류하는 방식을 택하면 집배원이 우편물을 배달하는 순로까지 자동으로 정렬할 수 있게 된다. 본 논문은 수취인 주소영역의 주소부분을 자동판독하기 위한 시스템을 개발한 내용을 다루고자 한다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2003년도 학술회의 논문집 정보 및 제어부문 A
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• pp.231-234
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• 2003

This paper describes the structure, operation, image processing, and decision making techniques of a color machine vision system designed for the automatic sorting of soybeans. The system consists of feeder, conveyor belt, line-scan camera, lights. ejector, and a PC Unlike manufactured goods, agricultural products including soybeans have quite uneven features. The criteria for sorting good and bad beans also vary depending on inspectors. We tackle these problem by letting the system learn the inspecting parameters from good samples selected manually by a machine user before running the system for sorting. Real-time processing has another importance In the design. Four parallel DSPs are employed to increase the processing speed. When the designed system was tested with real soybeans and the result was successful.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1996년도 International Conference on Agricultural Machinery Engineering Proceedings
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• pp.607-614
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• 1996

A computer vision based automatic intelligent sorting system for dried oak mushrooms has been developed. The developed system was composed of automatic devices for mushroom feeding and handling, two sets of computer vision system for grading , and computer with digital I/O board for PLC interface, and pneumatic actuators for the system control. Considering the efficiency of grading process and the real time on-line system implementation, grading was done sequentially at two consecutive independent stages using the captured image of either side. At the first stage, four grades of high quality categories were determined from the cap surface images and at the second stage 8 grades of medium and low quality categories were determined from the gill side images. The previously developed neuro-net based mushroom grading algorithm which allowed real time on-line processing was implemented and tested. Developed system revealed successful performance of sorting capability of approximate y 5, 000 mushrooms/hr per each line i.e. average 0.75 sec/mushroom with the grading accuracy of more than 88%.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.73-83
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• 2017

소형가전 제품은 종류가 다양할 뿐만 아니라 구성부품의 재질도 복잡하여 폐기시 재활용이 매우 어려운 실정이다. 특히, 폐소형가전의 경우 흑색 플라스틱의 함유량이 높을 뿐만 아니라 재질이 다양하여 재활용 공정에서 발생하는 플라스틱의 재질을 인식하여 효율적으로 선별 회수하는 것이 매우 어렵다. 본 연구에서는 기존 선별기술이 가지고 있는 흑색 플라스틱의 재질별 선별에 대한 기술적 한계 및 단점을 보완하기 위하여 레이저유도붕괴분광법(Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, LIBS)을 기반으로 하는 흑색 플라스틱의 재질별 자동선별 시스템을 개발하였다. 본 시스템은 정량 공급장치, 위치 자동인식 장치, 레이저유도기반분광분석(LIBS) 장치, 선별분리장치 및 Control unit 등으로 구성되어 있다. 레이저유도붕괴분광법(LIBS)을 이용하여 흑색 플라스틱의 재질별 특성 스펙트럼 데이터를 획득하고, 인공지능형 알고리즘을 적용한 분류기를 설계하여 적용함으로써 흑색 플라스틱의 재질을 효율적으로 인식하고 분류할 수 있다. 본 연구에서 개발한 방사형기저함수신경회로망(RBFNNs) 분류기의 분류율은 약 97% 이상으로 나타났으며, 자동선별 시스템의 흑색 플라스틱의 재질별 인식률은 약 94.0% 이상, 선별효율은 80.0% 이상으로 조사되었다. 본 연구에서는 실험실 규모의 자동선별장치를 개발하였으며, 본 장치에 대한 실험결과를 바탕으로 흑색 플라스틱 재질인식 및 선별효율 등을 분석하므로써 향후 폐소형가전의 재활용 현장에 적용할 예정이다.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.698-704
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• 2010

The machine vision system has been widely applied at automatic inspection field of the industries. Especially, the machine vision system shows good performance at difficult inspection field by contact method. In this paper, the automatic system of a slant method to inspect screw/bolt shape using machine vision is developed. The inspection system uses pattern matching method that search similar degree of the lucidity, the average lucidity, length and angle of inspection set up area using a circular scan and a line scan method. Also the feeding method for inspection product is the slant method, and feed rate is controlled by the ramp angle adjustment. This inspection system is composed of a feeding device, a transfer device, vision systems, a lighting device and computer, and is composed the sorting discharge system of the inferior product. The performance test carried out the feeding speed, the shape correct degree and the sorting discharge speed according to the type of screw/bolt. This sorting inspection system showed a satisfied test results in whole inspection items. Presently, this sorting inspection system is being used in the manufacturing process of screw/bolt usefully.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.172-178
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• 2005

Grading and sorting an indeterminate form of agricultural products such as sweet potatoes and potatoes are a labor intensive job because its shape and size are various and complicate. It costs a great deal to sort sweet potato in an indeterminate forms. There is a great need for an automatic grader fur the potatoes. Machine vision is the promising solution for this purpose. The optical indices for qualifying weight and appearance quality such as shape, color, defects, etc. were obtained and an on-line sorting system was developed. The results are summarized as follows. Sorting system combined with an on-line inspection device was composed of 5 sections, human inspection, feeding, illumination chamber, image processing & control, and grading & discharging. The algorithms to compute geometrical parameters related to the external guality were developed and implemented for sorting the deformed sweet potatoes. Grading accuracy by image processing was $96.4\%$ and the processing capacity was 10,800 pieces per hour.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.147-154
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• 2001

In Korea and Japan, dried oak mushrooms are classified into 12 to 16 different categories based on its external visual quality. And grading used to be done manually by the human expert and is limited to the randomly sampled oak mushrooms. Visual features of dried oak mushrooms dominate its quality and are distributed over both sides of the gill and the cap. The 2nd prototype computer vision based automatic grading and sorting system for dried oak mushrooms was developed based on the 1st prototype. Sorting function was improved and overall system for grading was simplified to one stage grading instead of two stage grading by inspecting both front and back sides of mushrooms. Neuro-net based side(gill or cap) recognition algorithm of the fed mushroom was adopted. Grading was performed with both images of gill and cap using neural network. A real time simultaneous discharge algorithm, which is good for objects randomly fed individually and for multi-objects located along a series of discharge buckets, was developed and implemented to the controller and the performance was verified. Two hundreds samples chosen from 10 samples per 20 grade categories were used to verify the performance of each unit such as feeding, reversing, grading, and discharging unites. Test results showed that success rates of one-line feeding, reversing, grading, and discharging functions were 93%, 95%, 94%, and 99% respectively. The developed prototype revealed successful performance such as the approximate sorting capability of 3,600 mushrooms/hr per each line i.e. average 1sec/mushroom. Considering processing time of approximate 0.2 sec for grading, it was desired to reduce time to reverse a mushroom to acquire the reversed surface image.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.514-523
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• 2006

Production of green pepper has been increased due to customer's preference and a projected ten-year boom in the industry in Korea. This study was carried out to develop an automatic grading and sorting system for green pepper using machine vision. The system consisted of a feeding mechanism, segregation section, an image inspection chamber, image processing section, system control section, grading section, and discharging section. Green peppers were separated and transported using a bowl feeder with a vibrator and a belt conveyor, respectively. Images were taken using color CCD cameras and a color frame grabber. An on-line grading algorithm was developed using Visual C/C++. The green peppers could be graded into four classes by activating air nozzles located at the discharging section. Length and curvature of each green pepper were measured while removing a stem of it. The first derivative of thickness profile was used to remove a stem area of segmented image of the pepper. While pepper is moving at 0.45 m/s, the accuracy of grading sorting for large, medium and small pepper are 86.0%, 81.3% and 90.6% respectively. Sorting performance was 121 kg/hour, and about five times better than manual sorting. The developed system was also economically feasible to grade and sort green peppers showing the cost about 40% lower than that of manual operations.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.2555-2559
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• 2003

In this study, we develop an automatic sorting system, which is mostly affected by frictional forces between a veneer and friction-generating device. So we will make a suitable dynamic model and mechanism to control friction force using a AC servo-motor. We suggest Stick friction and Column friction model, which is occurred between roller and veneer and within veneers as well. A kind of sensor can get the velocity of roller and movement of roller vertical direction. We assume that the several things to simplify the complicate and difficult nonlinear friction phenomenon. And to create an optimal normal force, which can generate a suitable friction force, we control the movement of sorting roller and supporter as well. We introduce several results about a friction character and suggest the value of calibration of sorting roller movement and supporters as well.