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New qualitative sorting process for fresh fruits and vegetables based on spectral analysis with the new 'Smart Camera' system
Start date:1998-11-01
End date:2001-01-31
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Project status:Completed
Coordinator
| Organization name:Garonne Electronique Réalisation Systèmes SA | |
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Name:Bernard |
ZI Avenue Georges Guignard 47550 Agen Boe FRANCE Region:SUD-OUEST AQUITAINE Lot-et-Garonne |
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The aim of the "Smart Camera" project is to design, to develop, to test and to implement an automated machine-vision system able to perform visual inspection and qualitative sorting of fresh fruits and vegetables during operations involving these products at the Packing House.This cooperative research project is grouping 9 companies of four Member States: 4 Industrial SMEs and 2 "other proposers" specialised in electronics, in manufacturing of high precision machines, in instrumentation and calibration devices and in the production and packing of fruits and vegetables and 3 RTDs specialised in computer software and electronics, in vision and optics and in agro industrial mechanisation.The objective of this research is to develop a new methodology for the sorting of fruits and vegetables. The technical solution to permit the selection of narrow wavelength ranges, necessary to improve the effectiveness of the sorting process, should be offered by the new "Smart Camera" video Colour device. The solution will be provided by a simultaneous use of two CCDis, coupled charged devices, with a special diachronic-mirror, and a set of multiple (narrow) band pass filters, allowsing the selection of five narrow bandwidths of light. The "smart camera" project will be based on: . a patent developed by the Prime RTD, for the design of an innovative new Multispectral Camera Device, able to capture images based upon the choice of pre-selected bandwidths of light, . a "tailor-made" software, especially designed to process Multispectral data on 3D basis, to search mathematical contours and morphologies of defects, to permit a real time data processing . a high precision machine able to guide the product during its visual inspection, moving it by translation, and small rotations to permit global control of its surface state, and finally making possible the separation of acceptable and rejected products. The combined efforts of all SMEs participating to the "Smart Camera Project" will promote a real progress on the state-of-the-art in the field of sorting process of fruits and vegetables, representing a definitive improvement of its reliability, and its effectiveness, and leading to better performance of visual inspection, higher quality levels, and, consequently reduced costs of product non-conformities in the market place and reduce of social hard-working in the sector.
Project Details
Start date:1998-11-01
End date:2001-01-31
Duration:27 months
Project Reference:BRST985326
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FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3
Programme type:Fourth Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:Incorporation of new technologies into production systems
Contract type:Cooperative research contracts
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Subject index:Innovation, Technology Transfer, Electronics, Microelectronics, Industrial Manufacture
Other participants
| Organization name:Centre Technique Interprofessionnel des Fruits et Légumes | |
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Name:Philippe |
Centre de Saint-Rémy-de-Provence Route de Mollégès 13210 Saint-Rémy-de-Provence FRANCE Region:MÉDITERRANÉE PROVENCE-ALPES-CÔTE D'AZUR Bouches-du-Rhône |
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| Organization name:Delta Danish Electronics, Light & Acoustics | |
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Name:Finn M. |
Light and Optics 99,Bjortekaersvej 99 2800 Lungby DANMARK Region:DANMARK Danmark Københavns amt |
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| Organization name:Tapîglis SA | |
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Name:Bernard |
BP 147 9,Avenue des Carreaux 49481 St Sylvain d'Anjou FRANCE Region:OUEST PAYS DE LA LOIRE Maine-et-Loire |
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| Organization name:Cannestrini Srl | |
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Name:Paolo |
37,Via Papa Giovanni XXIII 47012 Civitella di Romagna ITALIA Region:EMILIA-ROMAGNA Forlì-Cesena |
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| Organization name:FOOD MACHINERY ESPANOLA SA | |
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Name:Jorge |
24,Av. Jesus Morante Borras 24 46012 VALENCIA ESPAÑA Region:ESTE COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA Valencia |
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| Organization name:Compucal SA | |
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Name:Jean-Luc |
82200 Moissac FRANCE Region:SUD-OUEST MIDI-PYRÉNÉES Tarn-et-Garonne |
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| Organization name:Sofruitex SA | |
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Name:Bernard |
Marché Gare 82030 Montauban FRANCE Region:SUD-OUEST MIDI-PYRÉNÉES Tarn-et-Garonne |
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| Organization name:Oberrauch GmbH | |
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Name:Konrad |
43,Castel Firmiano 39010 Bolzano ITALIA Region:NORD EST TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE Bolzano-Bozen |
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Record control number:45883
