CONTINUOUS MASS MEASUREMENT IN CHECKWEIGHERS AND CONVEYOR BELT SCALES |
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| Takanori Yamazaki, Yoshiharu Sakurai, Hideo Ohnishi, Masaaki Kobayashi, Shigeru Kurosu |
- Abstract:
- This work is concerned with the development of a signal processing algorithm for checkweighers to realize much higher speed of operation and highly accurate measurement of mass of object during crossing a conveyor belt. Continuous measurement means that masses of discrete objects on a conveyor belt are determined in sequence. Checkweighers usually have maximum capacities of less than 75 kg and achieve measuring rates of 150 packages per minute and more. The output signals from the checkweighers are always contaminated with noises due to vibrations of the conveyor belt and the object in motion. In this paper an employed digital filter is of Finite-duration Impulse Response (FIR) type that can be designed under the consideration on the dynamics of checkweighers. The experimental results on checkweighers suggest that the filtering algorithm proposed in this paper is effective enough to practical applications.
- Keywords:
- mass measurement, checkweigher, conveyor belt scale, digital filter
- Download:
- IMEKO-TC3-2002-001.pdf
- DOI:
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- Event details
- IMEKO TC:
- TC3
- Event name:
- Joint International Conference on Force, Mass, Torque, Hardness and Civil Engineering Metrology in the age of globalization
- Title:
18th Conference on Force, Mass and Torque (together with 8th HARDMEKO TC5 Conference on Hardness Measurement and 1st TC20 Conference on Civil Engineering Metrology)
- Place:
- Celle, GERMANY
- Time:
- 24 September 2002 - 26 September 2002