Abstract
Non-invasive conveyor belt diagnostics in damage detection allows significant reductions of the costs related to belt replacement, as well as the evaluation of belt usability and wear degree changes over time. As a result, it increases safety in the location where the belt is used. Depending on the location of a belt conveyor, its length or the type of the transported material, the belt may undergo wear at different rates, albeit the wear process itself is inevitable. This article presents an artificial intelligence-based approach to the classification of conveyor belt damage. A two-layer neural network was implemented in the MATLAB programming language, with the use of a Deep Learning Toolbox set. As a result of the optimization of the created network, the effectiveness of operation was at the level of 80%.
Highlights
The life of the conveyor belt depends on many factors collected in the literature [1]—among other things, it depends on the type of material transported, the specificity of the transport point as well as the length and age of the conveyor belt
Before they are fed at the input of the neural network, the data must be subjected to preliminary processing
The popularity of artificial neural networks as tools for solving classification problems results mainly from the fact that such a network can often make more accurate decisions than a team of experts, and in addition it can be implemented in almost any branch of science
Summary
The life of the conveyor belt depends on many factors collected in the literature [1]—among other things, it depends on the type of material transported, the specificity of the transport point as well as the length and age of the conveyor belt. This device works continuously, transporting the material from the tail pulley to the head pulley. During the operation of the belt conveyor, the belt is passed through both pulleys, changing the running direction on them. There is a feet chute, the arrangement and shape of which guarantees the correct arrangement of the discharged material on the conveyor belt and prevents it from spilling out of the belt area. The material is moved along the belt to the head pulley, where the belt direction changes, and the load is thrown outside the area of the belt conveyor [2]
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