Data acquisition system for pneumatic actuator of the Tomato Color Sorter based on virtual instrument

Author

Jie, Yu ; Za, Kan ; Ruoyu, Zhang ; Xiaoli, Sun ; Wanchao, Hu ; Zhangtao, Yin ; Yang, Liu

Author_Institution

Machinery & Electr. Eng. Coll., Shihezi Univ., Shihezi, China

Volume

2

fYear

2011

fDate

10-12 June 2011

Firstpage

671

Lastpage

675

Abstract

According to the virtual instrument technology, data acquisition system for pneumatic actuator of the Tomato Color Sorter is put forwards into application in this paper. Working principle of the tomato color sorter, the characteristics of pneumatic actuator are introduced briefly. System´s hardware components, sensor design principles and software design methods are described in detail. Through experiments on the system, tomato color sorter chamber pressure and strike force of ejection board are collected, functions of over-limit alarm and historical data playback are implemented. The system design and experiments are provided a data base for the tomato color sorter pneumatic actuator to further optimize the design of foundation.

Keywords

CCD image sensors; agricultural products; data acquisition; hardware-software codesign; optimisation; pneumatic actuators; production engineering computing; virtual instrumentation; chamber pressure; data acquisition system; ejection board; hardware components; optimisation; over-limit alarm; pneumatic actuator; sensor design principles; software design methods; strike force; tomato color sorter; virtual instrument; Data acquisition; Force; Image color analysis; Instruments; Pneumatic actuators; Real time systems; Software; LabVIEW; data acquisition; the Tomato Color Sorter; virtual instrument;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Automation Engineering (CSAE), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8727-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSAE.2011.5952557

Filename

5952557