Abstract. Detecting immature green citrus at an early stage for yield forecasting can help growers expect how many fruit they can harvest at the end of the year. Also, it can provide an in-field spatial variability of fruit that can be used for providing site-specific management of citrus trees to increase yield and profit. Yield forecasting using the machine vision technology has been a promis...

Agriculture is vitally important to the economy and well being of the United States. Corn and soybeans are two of the most important crops in the Midwest. Automated agricultural guidance systems offer opportunities for reduced fatigue, improved safety, increased efficiency and a host of other improvements. A machine vision based guidance system for agricultural combines was developed at the Uni...

in this paper, a novel method is developed for designing the output feedback controller for static synchronous series compensator (sssc). in the proposed method, the problem of selecting the output feedback gains for the sssc controllers is changed into an optimization problem with a time domain-based objective function.then, it is solved by using the particle swarm optimization (pso) algorithm...

Vision based solution of safe navigation for commercial vehicles with fish-eye camera is presented in this paper. This work aims to develop a system which is able to detect persons or objects around commercial vehicles for preventing any accidents. This is achieved by integrating classifier based window searching algorithm and ego-motion based algorithm into the system. The classifier is traine...

hub covering location problem, network design,   single machine scheduling, genetic algorithm,   shuffled frog leaping algorithm   hub location problems (hlp) are synthetic optimization problems that appears in telecommunication and transportation networks where nodes send and receive commodities (i.e., data transmissions, passengers transportation, express packages, postal deliveries, etc.) th...

this survey was done for constructing an egg sorting machine which could sort white eggs from fertilized eggs. egg sorting machine was constructed based on physiological properties of trout egg. fertilized eggs have much more elasticity than white or non-hatched eggs. so the hatched eggs will fly back if were hit to a solid surface. the machine divided to 5 parts including mechanical, electrica...

This paper, proposes a novel solution for a stereo vision machine based on the System-on-Programmable-Chip (SoPC) architecture. The SOPC technology provides great convenience for accessing many hardware devices such as DDRII, SSRAM, Flash, etc., by IP reuse. The system hardware is implemented in a single FPGA chip involving a 32-bit Nios II microprocessor, which is a configurable soft IP core i...

To investigate the detection of rice exterior quality, a machine vision system was developed. The main characteristics of rice appearance including area, perimeter, roughness and minimum enclosing rectangle were calculated by image analysis. Least Squares Support Vector Machines, Naive Bayes Classifier and Back Propagation Artificial Neural Network were applied to achieve classification of head...