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Vision-aided system for obtaining a required weight by efficient choice of irregular fragments
Francisco Sánchez Niñoa,
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, Victor Hugo Compeán Jassob, Francisco Javier De Anda Salazara, Carlos Soubervielle Montalvoc, Juan Carlos Muñozc
a Instituto de Investigación en Comunicación Óptica IICO-UASLP, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
b CONACYT Research Fellow - Instituto de Investigación en Comunicación Óptica IICO-UASLP, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
c Facultad de Ingeniería UASLP, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
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The PC communicates with the analytic balance through an RS-232 port&#46; A LabVIEW program was written to acquire the weight of each piece&#46; The operator puts a new piece in the analytical balance pan and then clicks a button to start the weighing process&#44; when the analytical balance&#44; previously tared&#44; has determined the piece&#39;s weight sends a &#8220;ready&#8221; signal to the PC which captures the result immediately&#46;</p><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Then the PC sends a command to tare the analytical balance to prepare it to weigh a new piece&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">2&#46;2</span><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0030">Image acquisition and labeling</span><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">When the PC receives the ready signal from the analytical balance&#44; in addition to reading the piece&#39;s weight&#44; it sends a signal to the webcam to acquire a photograph&#46; To control the webcam and to process the images the LabVIEW IMAQdx tools are used &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0010">National Instruments&#44; 2003</a>&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">To identify each piece&#44; the photograph containing all the pieces on the analytical balance pan is converted to a binary image and processed to identify each particle&#46; Each piece is then labeled using its location in the image and its weight &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015">National Instruments&#44; 2011a</a>&#41;&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">2&#46;3</span><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0035">Data processing</span><p id="par0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">After a new piece has been weighed and labeled the PC calculates the weight of all the possible combinations of the pieces on the analytical balance pan &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0020">National Instruments&#44; 2011b</a>&#41;&#44; if one of the combinations has the required weight&#44; within the admissible error&#44; the PC notifies the operator and points to the pieces that form that combination by blinking their images and changing the color of its corresponding number as shown in <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0010">Fig&#46; 2</a>&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0010"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">At the beginning of the process the operator defines the admissible error and the maximum number of fragments that can be selected to achieve the required weight&#46;</p></span></span><span id="sec0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">3</span><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0040">Results and conclusion</span><p id="par0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The system is routinely used to weigh the components of the solutions used in the LPE experiments&#46; The weighing time has been dramatically reduced from several hours to a few minutes&#46;</p><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The weighing time depends mainly on the number of pieces that have to be weighed to obtain the required weight and also on the time the operator takes to put a new piece on the analytical balance pan&#46;</p><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The number of pieces that have to be weighed to obtain the required combination is random&#44; but generally this number increases if the admissible error is reduced and if the maximum number of pieces allowed on a combination is decreased&#46;</p><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The semi-automated procedure still depends&#44; but to a lesser extent&#44; on the practice of the operator to select the pieces to be weighed&#46;</p><p id="par0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Also it is necessary to be careful not to put the pieces together touching one another because the image labeling program fails in this case&#46;</p><p id="par0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The illumination has proved to be very important for the image processing task&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0035" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0045">Conflict of interest</span><p id="par0125" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare&#46;</p></span></span>"
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