Design of a capacitive sensor for oil palm fresh fruit bunch maturity grading

Author

Abdul Aziz, A.H. ; Ismail, A.H. ; Ahmad, R.B. ; Isa, C.M.N.C. ; Farook, R.S.M. ; Husin, Z. ; Ezanuddin, A.A.M. ; Shakaff, A.Y.M.

Author_Institution

Electron. Dept., Univ. Malaysia Perlis, Arau, Malaysia

fYear

2014

fDate

19-21 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

443

Lastpage

445

Abstract

Automatic grading of oil palm fresh fruit bunch is desired. In this study, a capacitive sensing system was designed and developed for the purpose of grading oil palm fresh fruit bunch. In this method, oil palm fresh fruit bunch placed between capacitive plates as a dielectric material and then measure the resulting capacitance voltage. Experiments were carried out using oil palm bunches of Tenera variety. Ripe and unripe mature bunches tested with 100 kHz sinusoidal frequencies. Correlation of capacitive response observed to be linear to bunch weight and negative linear to bunch ripeness. This result suggest that this method be explored for automatic grading of oil palm fresh fruit bunch.

Keywords

agricultural products; capacitive sensors; dielectric materials; Tenera variety; automatic grading; capacitance voltage; capacitive plates; capacitive response correlation; capacitive sensor design; dielectric material; frequency 100 kHz; oil palm fresh fruit bunch maturity grading; Capacitive sensors; Chemicals; Dielectrics; Educational institutions; Indexes; Machine vision; Materials; FFB grading; capacitive sensor; dielectric sensor; palm oil maturity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Design (ICED), 2014 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Penang

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICED.2014.7015846

Filename

7015846