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Plenary Lecture
Vision Based Measurement Systems
Professor Radu I. Munteanu
Member of the Technical Sciences Academy from Romania (ASTR)
Rector of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
radu.munteanu@mas.utcluj.ro
Abstract: The field of food industry is nowadays governed by some of
the toughest regulations ever seen in industry in order to maintain the
quality of practices such as product traceability and hygiene. Beside these
it is required to maintain flexible processes in order to allow alternative
products specifications, while maximizing robotic utilization. It is
therefore no surprise that this field is very active in introducing
automated systems to perform many tasks. The recent advances in
semiconductor technology allow to design and implement advanced mathematical
methods on low cost hardware platforms. It is a desiderate for smart sensor
systems to implement mechanisms similar to the humans mental activity of
combining information for the goal of recognizing a measurand that is hardly
distinguishable with a single sensor. This presentation will introduce the
concept of virtual sensor. A vision based contactless weighting sensor will
be presented together with the mathematical foundations required for
building and calibrating it. Its real-time performance is demonstrated
through the implementation of an automatic sorting system. Further
improvements and optimization techniques are introduced in order to make the
system able to maximize yield of edible product, reduce labor requirements
of the complete system, to provide a process compatible with most current
plants and to improve overall plant productivity.
Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Radu Ioan MUNTEANU graduated the Faculty of Electrotechnics, Technical
University of Cluj Napoca (UTCN), 1968 and has a PH.D. in Technical Physics
(UTCN, 1982). Since then his research and teaching activities covered an
large area of electrical and electronical measurements, reliability, data
aquisition systems, sensors, virtual instrumentation, medical engineering.
He is the author of more then 236 published papers, 25 patents, contributed
to more then 27 books and 52 research grants in these fields. Doctor Honoris
Causa al "Pro-Deo" University New York, USA (1995); University of Craiova,
Romania (2002); North University of Baia Mare, Romania (2003) University of
Pitesti, Romania (2004), University of Oradea, Romania (2005), "Aurel Vlaicu"
University of Arad, Romania (2006), „Petru Maior” University of Targu-Mures
(2007). Editor-in-chief: ELECTROMOTION – An International Journal Devoted to
Research, Development, Design and Application of Electromechanical Energy,
Converters, Actuators and Transducers; Mediamira Science Publisher; ISNN
1223-057X (1994- ); ACTA ELECTROTEHNICA (Academy of Technical Sciences of
Romania; Technical University of Cluj-Napoca); Mediamira Science Publisher;
ISSN 1224-2497; (1998- ), RIV- Journal of Virtual Instrumentation, Technical
University of Cluj and National Instruments Inc. Austin (Texas, USA);
Mediamira Science Publisher; ISSN 1453-8059; (1998- ), SCIENCE POLICY AND
SCIENTOMETRIC MAGAZINE; CNCSIS - National University Research Council;
Mediamira Science Publisher; ISSN 1582-1218; (2003- ). He is a member of the
Technical Sciences Academy from Romania and the rector of Technical
University of Cluj Napoca (2004 - )
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