A Wearable Mobile Sensor Platform to Assist Fruit Grading

Sensors

Rafael V. Aroca¹  Rafael B. Gomes¹  Rummennigue R. Dantas¹  Adonai G. Calbo² 

[1] NatalNet Laboratory, Technology Center, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), 59078-900 Natal, RN, Brazil; E-Mails:;Embrapa Instrumentation, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Rua Quinze de Novembro, 1452, P.O. Box 741, 13560-970 São Carlos, SP, Brazil; E-Mail:

关键词: ubiquitous computing;    mobile sensing;    glove-based platform;    fruit grading;    wearable computing;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s130506109

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Wearable computing is a form of ubiquitous computing that offers flexible and useful tools for users. Specifically, glove-based systems have been used in the last 30 years in a variety of applications, but mostly focusing on sensing people's attributes, such as finger bending and heart rate. In contrast, we propose in this work a novel flexible and reconfigurable instrumentation platform in the form of a glove, which can be used to analyze and measure attributes of fruits by just pointing or touching them with the proposed glove. An architecture for such a platform is designed and its application for intuitive fruit grading is also presented, including experimental results for several fruits.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
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