Automatic Identification of Gas Cylinder Storage Using Hopfield Neural Network

Companies engaged in the manufacture, marketing and maintenance of cylinders for liquefied petroleum gas in Colombia, stamped steel plates and welded to the product a unique serial code to be identified within the cylinder of the country park. Currently, the identification process is manual and checked approximately 7000 cylinders per day in a single factory. The main objective of this paper is to present a vision system that uses artificial neural networks to recognize the code. This system consists physically of a portable device that controls light environment and scene for the acquisition of images. Another component of the system is to adjust the image. The adjustment is based on median filtering, binarization, label, and segmentation, this processing allows more meaningful information and image discrimination. Finally, the intelligent component identification is performed with Hopfield neural networks and an algorithm that checks the development of image recognition. The effectiveness of the system was reported with experimental results obtained on the basis of error with a significant number of samples.