Application Feature system needs to be able to make visual inspections based on analog or “degree of goodness” data. So what’s the answer to this dilemma?
able process eight or nine pieces of fruit per second, with up to eight lanes of fruit running at a time. Upcoming mechanical changes to the sorting system will deliver a further speed improvement of 12-14 fruit per second all without bruising or damaging the fruit during inspection.
For a major fruit grower co-op in California, the answer has been an SHB Express system host board like the one in Figure 2 communicating to a series of DSP cards plugged into the backplane and connected to cameras. The system shown in Figure 3 has an SHB running custom inspection software developed by the co-op and is able to perform all inspections at a rate of 40 ms per piece of fruit. The next-generation fruit-inspection system will use new inspection software, a later version PICMG 1.3 system host board featuring the latest Intel Xeon processor, a PCI Express Gen3 backplane, and a series of high-speed Ethernet cameras. Preliminary speed tests show a 90 percent reduction in inspection time compared to the previous system. This faster inspection time equates to being
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Figure 3 | Fruit-inspection system.
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