Application of machine vision for performance enhancement of footing machine used in leather industry of Pakistan

Author

Farooq, Umar ; Asad, Muhammad Usman ; Rafiq, Faiqa ; Abbas, Ghulam ; Hanif, Aamer

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of The Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

fYear

2013

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

149

Lastpage

154

Abstract

The project replaces the existing solution employed in leather industry to measure the area of irregular pieces of leather. The designed machine uses camera to perform the task as compared to the photo sensors in the existing machine and as a result, the accuracy of the system has been increased. Also, the existing machine runs through a 486 PC with software written in Pascal and thus the maintenance of the machine is cumbersome as most of the cards for 486 PC are now obsolete. The designed machine is run through a Pentium processor with MATLAB program. The low level control of machine is performed by an inexpensive AT89C51 microcontroller which monitors the IR sensor for the detection of leather piece on machine base, drives the DC motor through a motor interfacing card and sends synchronizing signal to MATLAB for capturing the image of leather. Upon receiving the capture signal from microcontroller; image is captured and processed by MATLAB to calculate the area of leather piece.

Keywords

DC motor drives; area measurement; automatic optical inspection; cameras; computer vision; image sensors; infrared imaging; leather industry; mathematics computing; measurement systems; microcontrollers; production engineering computing; AT89C51 microcontroller; DC motor; IR sensor monitoring; MATLAB program; Pakistan; Pentium processor; camera; footing machine; footing machine performance enhancement; image capturing; image processing; irregular piece area measurement; leather industry; leather piece detection; low level machine control; machine base; machine maintenance; motor interfacing card; synchronizing signal; Cameras; DC motors; Industries; MATLAB; Machine vision; Microcontrollers; Sensors; AT89C51microcontrollermicrocontroller; MATLAB; footing machine; image processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Information Management (ICDIM), 2013 Eighth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Islamabad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0613-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDIM.2013.6694000

Filename

6694000