TY - JOUR
T1 - Sensor technology integration in an intelligent machine for herring roe grading
AU - Croft, Elizabeth A.
AU - De Silva, Clarence W.
AU - Kurnianto, Setiawan
PY - 1996/12/1
Y1 - 1996/12/1
N2 - In this paper, the development and integration of sensor technology for herring roe grading is described. In this application, by and large, grading is presently done by hand. Shape, firmness/texture, color and weight all play key roles in determining the grade of a roe skein. Furthermore, a number of these variables are quite subjective both in the way they are determined by human graders, and in the way they affect the overall grade of a skein. Thus, in the present system an "intelligent" decision-making system, with multiple levels of abstraction, is used to determine the final grade of the product. The system uses a model base and also a knowledge base developed through interactive acquisition of knowledge from grading experts and off-line experiments. These are implemented as a set of fuzzy-logic rules and model matching procedures. A prototype grading machine has been developed and tested at an industrial plant. Topical experimental results are presented and studied.
AB - In this paper, the development and integration of sensor technology for herring roe grading is described. In this application, by and large, grading is presently done by hand. Shape, firmness/texture, color and weight all play key roles in determining the grade of a roe skein. Furthermore, a number of these variables are quite subjective both in the way they are determined by human graders, and in the way they affect the overall grade of a skein. Thus, in the present system an "intelligent" decision-making system, with multiple levels of abstraction, is used to determine the final grade of the product. The system uses a model base and also a knowledge base developed through interactive acquisition of knowledge from grading experts and off-line experiments. These are implemented as a set of fuzzy-logic rules and model matching procedures. A prototype grading machine has been developed and tested at an industrial plant. Topical experimental results are presented and studied.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0030244746&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/3516.537043
DO - 10.1109/3516.537043
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0030244746
VL - 1
SP - 204
EP - 215
JO - IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
JF - IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
SN - 1083-4435
IS - 3
ER -