Paper Info
Title
Characterizing material flow in sensor-based sorting systems using an instrumented particle
Abstract
Sensor-based sorting is a well-established single particle separation technology. It has found wide application as a quality assurance and control approach in food processing, mining, and recycling. In order to assure high sorting quality, a high degree of control of the motion of individual particles contained in the material stream is required. Several system designs, which are tailored to a sorting task at hand, exist. However, the suitability of a design for a sorting task is assessed by empirical observation. The required thorough experimentation is very time consuming and labor intensive. In this paper, we propose an instrumented bulk material particle for the characterization of motion behavior of the material stream in sensorbased sorting systems. We present a hardware setup including a 9-axis absolute orientation sensor that is used for data acquisition on an experimental sorting system. The presented results show that further processing of this data yields meaningful features of the motion behavior. As an example, we acquire and process data from an experimental sorting system consisting of several submodules such as vibrating conveyor channels and a chute. It is shown that the data can be used to train a model which enables predicting the submodule of a sorting system from which an unknown data sample originates. To our best knowledge, this is the first time that this ItoT-based approach has been applied for the characterization of material flow properties in sensor-based sorting.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1515/auto-2019-0128
AT-AUTOMATISIERUNGSTECHNIK
Keywords
DocType
Volume
sensor-based sorting,instrumentation,motion analysis,signal processing,flow control
Journal
68
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
SP4
0178-2312
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Georg Maier1328.24
Florian Pfaff2159.01
Andrea Bittner300.34
Robin Gruna4144.50
Benjamin Noack516823.73
Harald Kruggel-Emden611.71
Uwe D. Hanebeck7944133.52
Thomas Längle800.34
Jürgen Beyerer931575.37