Design and Testing of Accurate Dicing Control System for Fruits and Vegetables
It is hard to control the dicing size of current fresh-cutting devices for fruits and vegetables precisely, and this can be influenced by complex working environments. This paper looks at traditional three-dimensional fresh-cutting machines and, apart from analyzing the force-and-motion equation to...
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| description | It is hard to control the dicing size of current fresh-cutting devices for fruits and vegetables precisely, and this can be influenced by complex working environments. This paper looks at traditional three-dimensional fresh-cutting machines and, apart from analyzing the force-and-motion equation to determine the minimum rotational speed of the roller, the cross-cutting tool’s independent drive system, the speed detection system of the material before dicing, and shaft-speed monitoring have also been analyzed in order to develop precise control technology for three-dimensional fruit and vegetable dicing by considering dicing input-speed detection and by fine-tuning the cross-cutting tool’s dicing speed. Performance tests are carried out on the prototype before and after improvement. The results show that when the size of carrots and potatoes was 11 mm × 10 mm × 10 mm and 11 mm × 10 mm × 12 mm, the slice thickness and strip thickness error before improvement were 20% and 5%, respectively. Due to the structural limitations, the slice error was large, but the strip error as ideal. The dicing error was greater than 15% due to the different damping coefficients of the materials and the variable speed movement. After the adjustment, the overall dicing error was less than 10%, and the accuracy and stability were higher. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c5e84a0d1e2b47c7bc6403575de4639f2023-11-23T14:29:13ZengMDPI AGActuators2076-08252022-09-0111925210.3390/act11090252Design and Testing of Accurate Dicing Control System for Fruits and VegetablesSong Mei0Fengque Pei1Zhiyu Song2Yifei Tong3Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210014, ChinaCollege of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Hohai University, Changzhou 213022, ChinaNanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210014, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, ChinaIt is hard to control the dicing size of current fresh-cutting devices for fruits and vegetables precisely, and this can be influenced by complex working environments. This paper looks at traditional three-dimensional fresh-cutting machines and, apart from analyzing the force-and-motion equation to determine the minimum rotational speed of the roller, the cross-cutting tool’s independent drive system, the speed detection system of the material before dicing, and shaft-speed monitoring have also been analyzed in order to develop precise control technology for three-dimensional fruit and vegetable dicing by considering dicing input-speed detection and by fine-tuning the cross-cutting tool’s dicing speed. Performance tests are carried out on the prototype before and after improvement. The results show that when the size of carrots and potatoes was 11 mm × 10 mm × 10 mm and 11 mm × 10 mm × 12 mm, the slice thickness and strip thickness error before improvement were 20% and 5%, respectively. Due to the structural limitations, the slice error was large, but the strip error as ideal. The dicing error was greater than 15% due to the different damping coefficients of the materials and the variable speed movement. After the adjustment, the overall dicing error was less than 10%, and the accuracy and stability were higher.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0825/11/9/252fruits and vegetablesdicingstrip cuttingslicingerror |
| spellingShingle | Song Mei Fengque Pei Zhiyu Song Yifei Tong Design and Testing of Accurate Dicing Control System for Fruits and Vegetables Actuators fruits and vegetables dicing strip cutting slicing error |
| title | Design and Testing of Accurate Dicing Control System for Fruits and Vegetables |
| title_full | Design and Testing of Accurate Dicing Control System for Fruits and Vegetables |
| title_fullStr | Design and Testing of Accurate Dicing Control System for Fruits and Vegetables |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design and Testing of Accurate Dicing Control System for Fruits and Vegetables |
| title_short | Design and Testing of Accurate Dicing Control System for Fruits and Vegetables |
| title_sort | design and testing of accurate dicing control system for fruits and vegetables |
| topic | fruits and vegetables dicing strip cutting slicing error |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0825/11/9/252 |
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