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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2022
Filed:
May. 29, 2020
University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD (US);
Industry Vision Automation Corporation, College Park, MD (US);
Yang Tao, North Potomac, MD (US);
Dongyi Wang, Greenbelt, MD (US);
Robert Vinson, Rockville, MD (US);
Xuemei Cheng, Rockville, MD (US);
Maxwell Holmes, Washington, DC (US);
Gary E. Seibel, Westminster, MD (US);
University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD (US);
Abstract
Intelligence guided system and method for fruits and vegetables processing includes a conveyor for carrying produces, various image acquiring and processing hardware and software, water and air jets for cutting and controlling the position and orientation of the produces, and a networking hardware and software, operating in synchronism in an efficient manner to attain speed and accuracy of the produce cutting and high yield and low waste produces processing. The 2nd generation strawberry decalyxing system (AVID2) uniquely utilizes a convolutional neural network (AVIDnet) supporting a discrimination network decision, specifically, on whether a strawberry is to be cut or rejected, and computing a multi-point cutline curvature to be cut along by rapid robotic cutting tool.