Automatic Fruit Sorting Machine

NOVATEUR PUBLICATIONS
International Journal of Research Publications in Engineering and Technology [IJRPET]

ISSN: 2454-7875
VOLUME 3, ISSUE 5,May -2017
AUTOMATIC FRUIT SORTING MACHINE
PROF. TAWARE O. H.
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING., S.B.PATIL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, GAT No.58,Vangali Village, Pune-
Solapur highway,Indapur,Pune – 413106, Savitribai Phule pune university.
GHORPADE AMOL KRISHNA

Solapur highway,Indapur,Pune – 413106, Savitribai Phule pune university. [email protected]
GHORPADE MAYUR GANPAT

DEOKAR AJAY VYANKAT

ABSTRACT: needs to be of specific color for easy segmentation of the

The objectives of this study involve the particular fruit from its background, a high performance
optimize process of sorting machine for a spherical of machine. The two main factors are considered in that
fruits .fruits are today sorted with low efficiency in machine which are shape and size of fruits. Fruit size
any country. Thus we innovative fruit sorting sorting is an important factor for fresh fruit marketing
machine. With the help of gravity this fruits fall and also to help to farmer for sort fruit and also reduce
downward in machine. The main objective of this efforts of farmers in that machine the fruits are move in
machine is help to farmer for minimize time of fruit one direction the rollers are provided for the move fruits
sorting and reach market at proper time. and in between two rollers the gap is adjusted in that
buy using or help of gravity this fruits are falls
INTRODUCTION: downward. And we get fruits with different size easily.
In India fruits are sorted manually.
MATERIALS:
Materials used for the fruit sorting machine are
rollers, motor, frame etc. in that roller material are steel
or either pipes which help to move fruits. And another
factor is 1HP motor or as per requirement and also as
per requirement of speed. In this project many factors
include in material topic because of more parts. For
rotation of roller either chain is used or either belt is we
use. In between them for belt the v belt is used.
LITERATURE REVIEW:
We know that a lot of research is done on fruit
If 10000 ton production of fruit then 2000 ton sorting machine which save the time and money from
is waste due to sorting time So we innovate “ Automatic last ten years many research is done on this topic in that
Fruit Sorting Machine” for avoid waste of time and cost earlier research and technology to study on fruit at
on manpower. India is an agricultural nation with large kuleuven (Belgium).
agricultural produce Various types of fruits are produced 1. Developing a fruit sort using fuzzy logic. The image
throughout year in that Many fruits are spherical in captured was converted to binary and boundary was
shape this fruits are we sorted manually but for that we extracted to determine the fruit size.
innovative this new machine which Sort this fruit 2. By Using coupled device to capture view of the fruit.
automatically with their shape. this is an machine which Four different filters were used to acquiring the red,
work with fruit size. in that the diameter is considered green, blue and the infrared regions.
for sort the fruits. The color of the conveyer system 3. Developed a size and color sorting using fuzziness. The
image was analyze with RGB color model.
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4. By Using developed model to determine the maturity of 100 is a typical value used in industry for determining
level of any fruit. Blue background in the conveyer was which fruits should be discarded due to damage
used for spherical fruit. Therefore, several considerations should be made in
designing transfer duct as it significantly affects the fruit
SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS: damage. As the sorting machine is general purposes and
The proposed control and measuring system designed for spherical objects, the duct angle can be
examined by Proteus is implemented in experimental adjusted according to fruit defect characteristics. The
machine. The maximum probable weight for the duct height adjusted by an adjustable screw mounted on
examined apples considers as 500 (gram) which the machine frame depends on fruit damage
produces 2.5 (mV) at the output port. This voltage level susceptibility. After machine fabrication and
is so low to be processed by microcontroller on which optimization, its performance is studied for apple fruit.
drives the valves correctly. Theoretical and practical evaluation is performed to
Amplifying the output signal of load cell is done determine the incline angle and machine performance
by using ultra-low-noise amplifier. As the load cell during the summer of using a very common apple
output signal is a DC one with constant value for each variety. To protect fruit bruising, the fruits were
fruit, the added noise to the desired signal could be harvested carefully by hand. The established decision
easily removed. As stated previously, gravity conveyor, rules for the microcontroller are illustrated in Table. To
measuring and control system and actuators (pneumatic determine the best angle with respect to fruit damage,
cylinders) are the main parts of the mechanical system. the duct angle was optimized. The classified apples were
At the step of the controlling and measuring systems are inspected with respect to bruising, which is most
implemented in the same chassis as transferring system. common result of impact force on apple fruit. After 24
The experimental results show that the control system hours the fruit damaged was inspected with naked eye
only drives the three latest pneumatic cylinders. In other Increasing duct angle results rising fruit velocity. At the
words, the apples with weights in range of 80 (gram) last gate the fruit speed is more than the others. The
pass through the duct and fall in the end of it. The only experimental data were analyzed using a variance
parameter which could act the performance of the analysis to determine the fruit bruising based on
machine seems to be noises. To evaluate impact of this bruising damage after the process on apple different
unwanted parameter on the machine performance, PSNR region The means of the treatments (damage) were
criterion is implemented. It is noteworthy that the PSNR compared with multiple range tests at a one percent
is calculated between the real amplitude signal and the level of significance for the machine. It is noteworthy
desired one which is a load cell output signal multiplied that, the statistical analyses and initial region in damage
at the amplification gain. It could be clearly seen that inspect experiments, which are done to modify the
there is a significant decrease in the for the low output sorting machine, are not remarked here. Only the results
signals. This means that in the low level of voltages and design procedure is discussed. Fruit damage
related to the lower weights, the noise signal becomes analyzing during the sorting process demonstrated that
dominant in compare with the load cell desired signals. the machine has no injury on apple fruit. Machine
In the amplifying stage the employed equipments are the capacity is the fruits weight which is graded per hour by
accurate and ultra low noise ones on which introduce the machine. It was determined that two seconds is
negligible noises in the system. Therefore, it seems that needed to receive a fruit from the load cell to the last
the vibration give rises from pneumatic cylinders gates
reaction affect the system performance. Therefore, the
chassis divided into two parts, one as controlling and RESULTS:
measuring system and the other as transferring duct. Result of fruit sorting machine is depend on the
demonstrates the comparison between for the system fruit shape if fruit spherical in nature then this fruit
with one and two chassis. It could be clearly seen that sorted easily. The fruit and vegetable was successfully
significantly improved in the lower weights range. sorted. The different fruits and vegetable that was
Experimental results also prove the PSNR results. successfully identified were: tomato, orange, lemon,
Evaluation of the machine for fruit green apple etc. The success rate depended on the fruit
Reduction of fruit damage is an important issue shape condition. If fruits are spherical in nature then this
and could be explained as the bottleneck of grading machine is very effective for that spherical fruits.
machine design. Damage occurs as a result of machinery
roughness and the susceptibility inherent of fruit during CONCLUSION:
fruit transferring in the duct. A visible bruise threshold
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NOVATEUR PUBLICATIONS

International Journal of Research Publications in Engineering and Technology [IJRPET]

GHORPADE AMOL KRISHNA

GHORPADE MAYUR GANPAT

DEOKAR AJAY VYANKAT

ABSTRACT: needs to be of specific color for easy segmentation of the

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