Production improvement by new optimised method in wood quality control and cutting with an high-performance on-line system

Project Information

PINOCCHIO

Grant agreement ID: BRPR980682

Project closed

Start date 1 September 1998

End date 31 August 2001

Funded under

• Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

Centro di Eccellenza Optronica (CEO)
Italy

Objective

The expected achievements have been reached with the realization of a demonstrator capable of detecting wood defects on both surfaces by means of Radio Frequency (RF) scanner and RGB video system; it also works with rough finishing of timber surfaces. There's a great reduction of the overall amount of data maintaining high image resolution and this allows high working speed. The images are usually independent by wood colours and are not affected by the dirty on the surfaces and by wood dust. Sometime the images are affected by these external factors and the expected results for the data fusion have not been reached completely because of the false alarms generated. This was verified mainly from RGB system.
A multisensor system for real time inspection of wood especially suited for online quality control of wood is proposed. Multiple sensor data are processed by means of fusion techniques to obtain the most amount of significant information of the inspected samples. The system produces fast decision for action to be performed in order to drive a cutting plant according to production flexible rules. Working demonstrator is planned for quality control. The main goals of the PINOCCHIO will be performing ones: l)Reduce level of uncertainties with respect to human inspection. 2)Detect and localise wood internal defects. 3)Reduce the wood waste. 4)Increase yield. 5)Drive cutting machine and optimise its timer. 6)Reduce the production cost. 7)Obtain customise system thank to modular and flexible architecture.

Fields of science

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › information engineering › telecommunications › radio technology › radio frequency
• engineering and technology › materials engineering › colors
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › sensors
• agricultural sciences › agriculture, forestry, and fisheries › forestry

Programme(s)

• FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 0104 - Safety and reliability of production systems

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

Centro di Eccellenza Optronica (CEO)

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via Panciatichi 30 ; 50127 Firenze ; Italy
• Total cost: No data

Participants (4)

Coop. Trabajo Asociado Los Almedrillos

Spain

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 430,Careterra Nacional Km.385 ; 13240 La Solana
• Total cost: No data

Koskisen Oy

Finland

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 16600 Jdrveld
• Total cost: No data

Omga SpA.

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via Carpi-Ravarino ; 41010 Modena - Soliera
• Total cost: No data

Technical Research Centre of Finland

Finland

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 02044 Espoo
• Total cost: No data