When the laundry rotates in the washing machine, it tends to lean toward one side. This tendency causes a serious vibration. The balance of washing machine plays an important role which reduces the vibration by injecting the sand or the salt water int...
When the laundry rotates in the washing machine, it tends to lean toward one side. This tendency causes a serious vibration. The balance of washing machine plays an important role which reduces the vibration by injecting the sand or the salt water into the balance of washing machine. The hot plate welder is used to prevent from outflow of contents. The hot plate welder brings about many problems which is concerned with accident. The workers are protected by loading/unloading system for balance of washing machine in hot plate welder. This system is required direction recognition and location information in the balance.
In this paper, development of machine vision system for recognition direction of balance in washing machine is studied. Pattern recognition techniques are used to extract an geometric characteristics from the balance of washing machine and to acquire the most similar form the next image of balance. The data acquired by the pattern matching is used for recognition direction of balance. The image processing software for the system is developed using LabVIEW.