The use of neural networks to recognise electrical symbols on a township map

A project is presented whose aim is to develop a system that can recognise electrical symbols on a scanned-in township map. The design of reticulation networks inevitably involves merging the new network with an existing infrastructure, and the system proposed plans to automate a large part of this process which was previously performed manually. The use of Neural Networks to implement the Pattern Recognition is explored, and this technology is shown to be particularly suited to the task put forward. The integration of the proposed system with a larger software package is described and the envisaged usage of the final product is discussed.