基于先验知识的Kmeans聚类生物质颗粒缺陷检测方法

Abstract

Biomass particle is one of the most important solid briquette fuels for agricultural and forestry biomass energy. Temperature, pressure, moisture and discharge holes are important factors to control biomass particle forming. The inappropriate setting of the parameters or blocking of the discharge hole will lead to the defects of the biomass particles, such as too short or poor roundness or pits or cracks. In order to detect these defects automatically, this paper proposes a method based on K-Means with prior knowledge. Firstly, the inner boundary tracking region detection algorithm and filling algorithm are combined to extract the regions in the backlight image. The regions are divided into debris, independent biomass particle regions and adhesive biomass particle regions. Secondly, K-Means with prior knowledge is used to segment the adhesive regions to get the independent biomass particle regions. Finally, the features of the biomass particles are extracted to judge the type of defects. The proposed method has been tested on images acquired from the vision system of the ring roller pellet mill. Experimental results show the efficiency of the proposed method in high detection accuracy and short detection time.