LI Haiyun,DONG Qiuhuang,YE Dapeng.Design and Experiment of the Sawn Timber Sorting System Based on Machine Vision[J].Chinese Journal of Wood Science and Technology,2025,39(04):98-104. DOI: 10.12326/j.2096-9694.2025025.
In order to achieve automated and efficient sorting of sawn timber with various surface conditions
a sawn timber automatic sorting system integrated with machine vision is designed. The entire system is mainly composed of modules including sawn timber conveyance
sawn timber automatic flipping
sawn timber inspection
and automatic sorting. The mechanical structure comprises chain conveying and a multi-stage automatic sorting
while the control system features sawn timber machine vision inspection and overall motion control functions. The control system adopts high-performance image acquisition and processing of sawn timber to identify surface defects such as live knots
dead knots
and wormholes. Based on the image analysis results
it controls the sorting motion system to achieve real-time grading and sorting of sawn timber. The prototype conducted real-time detection and sorting of defects such as living knot
dead knot
and insect hole on both sides of sawn timber. The recognition rates were 86.67%
86.67%
and 80.00% respectively
which verified the feasibility of the sorting system operation.
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