Implementação de um sistema automatizado de classificação de produtos agrícolas por peso.

Abstract

One of the great challenges of the agro-industrial sector is to combine quality with high productivity, satisfying the market requirements. In this direction, automation tools must be applied in many agricultural processes. This work describes the implementation and tests of an automatic system for classification of agricultural products, using weight criterion. The transport of the products is through a belt using a dynamic system of weight measurement. Two pneumatic cylinders are used for the discharging of the products. A programmable logic controller is used to compare the weight of the product with the boundary-values selected for the user. The ladder language was used in an application for the automatic classification, discharging products that are of the established band. The use of an automatic classification system in agricultural process products can raise the productivity and the reliability of the process.