Industrialized real-time flame thermal mapping system with off-line correction of spatial error

Author

Parenti, R. ; Verrecchìa, P. ; Bosla, G. ; Pignone, E.

Author_Institution

Ansaldo Ricerche Srl, Genoa, Italy

Volume

3

fYear

1994

fDate

5-9 Sep 1994

Firstpage

1977

Abstract

The thermal mapping system described can perform analysis of the combustion in a burner by means of a conventional CCD TV colour camera, a special card dedicated to the real-time calculus of the two colour pyrometry of the acquired images, a real-time presence/absence of flame alarm, an off-line specialized software module dedicated to correct the thermal mapping using information related to the specific flame morphology detected, in order to improve the measurement accuracy, and several integrated software modules dedicated to complete system management. Finally, a graphic user interface, based on windowing, pop-down keyboard and track-ball, allows a very simple use of the whole system

Keywords

CCD image sensors; alarm systems; computer vision; error correction; factory automation; flames; graphical user interfaces; manufacturing data processing; pyrometers; real-time systems; temperature measurement; CCD TV colour camera; alarm; burner; colour pyrometry; combustion; flame morphology; flame thermal mapping system; graphic user interface; off-line spatial error correction; real-time system; software module; Combustion; Fires; Image analysis; Image color analysis; Information analysis; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Real time systems; Software performance; Thermal management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation, 1994. IECON '94., 20th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bologna

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1328-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.1994.398122

Filename

398122