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Smart agriculture. Editorial

2021 , Beyerer, Jürgen , Bretthauer, Georg , Längle, Thomas

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Kognitive Systeme und Robotik

2018 , Bauckhage, Christian , Bauernhansl, Thomas , Beyerer, Jürgen , Garcke, Jochen

Kognitive Systeme können komplexe Prozesse überwachen, analysieren und gewinnen daraus auch die Fähigkeit, in ungeplanten oder unbekannten Situationen richtig zu entscheiden. Fraunhofer-Experten setzen Verfahren des maschinellen Lernens ein, um neue kognitive Funktionen für Roboter und Automatisierungslösungen zu nutzen. Dazu statten sie Systeme mit Technologien aus, die von menschlichen Fähigkeiten inspiriert sind bzw. diese imitieren und optimieren. Der Bericht beschreibt diese Technologien, erläutert aktuelle Anwendungsbeispiele und entwirft Szenarien für zukünftige Anwendungsfelder.

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Predictive tracking with improved motion models for optical belt sorting

2020 , Pfaff, Florian , Pieper, Christoph , Maier, Georg , Noack, Benjamin , Gruna, Robin , Kruggel-Emden, Harald , Hanebeck, Uwe D. , Wirtz, Siegmar , Scherer, Viktor , Längle, Thomas , Beyerer, Jürgen

Optical belt sorters are a versatile means to sort bulk materials. In previous work, we presented a novel design of an optical belt sorter, which includes an area scan camera instead of a line scan camera. Line scan cameras, which are well-established in optical belt sorting, only allow for a single observation of each particle. Using multitarget tracking, the data of the area scan camera can be used to derive a part of the trajectory of each particle. The knowledge of the trajectories can be used to generate accurate predictions as to when and where each particle passes the separation mechanism. Accurate predictions are key to achieve high quality sorting results. The accuracy of the trajectories and the predictions heavily depends on the motion model used. In an evaluation based on a simulation that provides us with ground truth trajectories, we previously identified a bias in the temporal component of the prediction. In this paper, we analyze the simulation-based ground truth data of the motion of different bulk materials and derive models specifically tailored to the generation of accurate predictions for particles traveling on a conveyor belt. The derived models are evaluated using simulation data involving three different bulk materials. The evaluation shows that the constant velocity model and constant acceleration model can be outperformed by utilizing the similarities in the motion behavior of particles of the same type.

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Characterizing material flow in sensor-based sorting systems using an instrumented particle

2020 , Maier, Georg , Pfaff, Florian , Bittner, Andrea , Gruna, Robin , Längle, Thomas , Beyerer, Jürgen , Noack, Benjamin , Kruggel-Emden, Harald , Hanebeck, Uwe D.

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 sensor-based 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 IIoT-based approach has been applied for the characterization of material flow properties in sensor-based sorting.

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