Cutting quality of kitchen knives: an application of sensor fusion to the analysis

Regression analysis is examined as a data integration technique for sensor fusion. Using experimental design, the effect of each explanatory variable on response variables is obtained independently, and when interactions are expected to exist, the effects can be calculated. An experiment on the quantification of sensor characteristics measured by sensor evaluation was carried out. The cutting quality of kitchen knives was considered as an example of sensory characteristics. It was found that the most significant factors influencing cutting quality are the angle of the cutting edge and the roughness of the side surface of the cutting edge