Cotton Gin Stand Machine-Vision Inspection and Removal System for Plastic Contamination: Hand Intrusion Sensor Design

• Published in: AgriEngineering Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 1 - 19
• Main Authors: Pelletier, Mathew G., Wanjura, John D., Wakefield, Jon R., Holt, Greg A., Kothari, Neha
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.03.2024
• Subjects: Algorithms; Arm; automated inspection; Automation; Calibration; Cameras; color; Computers; Connectors; Contaminants; Contamination; Cotton; cotton gin; Cotton ginning; Cotton gins; cotton industry; Critical components; Design; Hand; human resources; Intrusion; lint cotton; Machine vision; Modules; Personnel; plastic contamination; Plastics; Sensors; Software; streams; Vision systems; United States > US

Plastic contamination in cotton lint poses significant challenges to the U.S. cotton industry, with plastic wrap from John Deere round module harvesters being a primary contaminant. Despite efforts to manually remove this plastic during module unwrapping, some inevitably enters the cotton gin’s proc...