Integrated recycle plant for electric home appliances: automated recognition and sorting of product types

  • Authors:
  • Toshinao Ishii;Koichiro Kai;Keiji Shinoda;Yoshikazu Kotera

  • Affiliations:
  • Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Hyogo, Japan;Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Hyogo, Japan;Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Hyogo, Japan;Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Hyogo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ecodesign'99 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environmentally conscious design and inverse manufacturing
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Social demands of recycle is becoming strong. In modern production systems, large number of one model of product is manufactured at a time and the way of production operations are well specified. In recycling systems, on the contrary, it is usual that operation of disassemble for each works differs. Because of this, achieving high efficiency in recycling systems have been difficult. In a AEHA (Assoc. Electric Home Appliances) project of building an technical evaluation plant for recycling home electric appliances, we developed a automated system of recognizing and sorting used appliances. In order to solve the basic problem of handling various objects, we introduced recognition and sorting system by applying artificial vision and intelligent database system. In this report, we discuss its architecture, specifications and some details of information technology implemented in the system.