Abstract | ||
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The advent of new hyperspectral imaging modalities made possible the implementation of flexible machine vision systems that can be designed to solve a variety of industrial tasks such as automatic material sorting. However the design of robust machine vision systems is far from a trivial task as several issues including mechanical design, development of an appropriate illumination set-up, optimal interfacing between the sensing and optical equipment with the computer vision component have to be properly addressed in order to accommodate all challenges that are encountered in a typical industrial environment. In this paper we present a novel methodology to automate the recycling process of non-ferrous metal Waste from Electric and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) where a particular emphasis is placed on the design choices that were made in the development of the proposed waste sorting system. The developed machine vision system has been subjected to a thorough robustness evaluation and the reported experimental results indicate that the proposed solution can be used to replace the manual procedure that is currently used in WEEE recycling plants. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2010 | 10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641201 | ETFA |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
computer vision,materials handling,metals,production engineering computing,recycling,automatic material sorting,computer vision component,electric and electronic equipment,flexible machine vision systems,hyperspectral image analysis,nonferrous metal waste,optical equipment,sensing equipment,waste recycling automation,waste sorting system | Process engineering,Systems engineering,Waste sorting,Interfacing,Sorting,Control engineering,Hyperspectral imaging,Robustness (computer science),Automation,Electronic waste,Engineering,Statistical classification | Conference |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
1946-0740 | 2 | 0.38 |
References | Authors | |
1 | 5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Artzai Picón | 1 | 121 | 10.60 |
Ovidiu Ghita | 2 | 234 | 18.12 |
Pedro M. Iriondo | 3 | 36 | 4.69 |
Arantza Bereciartua | 4 | 6 | 1.81 |
Paul F. Whelan | 5 | 561 | 39.95 |