peaut sorter visio system

[esutanto]

Hello
does anybody here now of a peanut sorter system based on machine vision?

thanks

[Lorne H.]

esutanto,

No,  I have never heard of a peanut sorting system that uses Vision.  Although, I think it is highly likely that Vision Builder for Automated Inspection could sort peanuts, it might even be easy.

My only concern would be that peanuts are a product of nature and they do not always have uniform sizes and shapes.  Also,  due to their odd shape, there a quite a few different angles the peanuts might be viewed from.  On the plus side, there are ways to deal with these difficulties.

If you just needed to count peanuts, that should be easy.

If you can explain in more detail regarding exactly what the peanut sorting system will have to do, I can do my best to tell you whether or not it will be possible.

Lorne Hengst

Application Engineer
National Instruments

[esutanto]

Hi
it's peanut sorter based on shape and color that my potential customer want.

I googled for peanut sorter and saw some turnkey offerings available
they used regular camera and infrared/laser

My customer was offered a $100k+ equipment but the result is not satisfactory

[Lorne H.]

esutanto,

Let me be honest.  I really cannot tell you for sure whether or not a peanut sorting system will work with the Vision Builder for Automated Inspection.  I have seen some very similar systems that work great, but not for peanuts.  Also, the success mostly depends on the how good of a job the programmer does on the Vision Builder script.

Variables like...
1.  How many peanuts must be sorted a second.
2.  What makes a peanut a good peanut and what makes a peanut a bad peanut.
3.  How well the lighting in the peanut sorter can be controlled/stabalized.
4.  In what ways can you control how the peanut is positioned when being sorted (can you keep the peanuts from visually "touching" each other, can you only inspect 1 peanut at a time, etc.).
5.  And there are many more.

All of the variables above change how the Vision Builder script should be created.

Lorne Hengst
Application Engineer
National Instruments