Testing of Fiber Contents in Mixture Textiles by NIR Combined with BP Neural Network

Abstract

Textiles are necessaries of human life. The fiber content is index of textile quality and how to measure it has important meaning. A method for testing fiber contents in mixture textiles by near infrared spectroscopy (NIR) was researched. The near infrared Spectra of samples in the range of 4000 cm-1 - 10000 cm-1 were obtained. Noise reduction and compression of spectra data was done by wavelet transform (WT). The reconstructed spectral signals were established based on WT and the correction models based on back propagation (BP) neural network were built. Comparisons between the BP neural network models at different analysis scale and the model of partial least square method (PLS) were given. When the structure of neural network is 11-9-2 for cotton/ terylene mixture samples and 21-13-2 for cotton/wool mixture samples, the best accuracy and fastest convergence speed is achieved. Experimental results have shown that this approach by Fourier transform NIR based on the BP neural network to predict the fiber content of textile mixture can satisfy the requirement of quantitative analysis and is also suitable for other fiber contents measurement of mixture textiles.