Improvement of Accuracy for Continuous Mass Measurement in Checkweighers with an Adaptive Notch Filter

—Processing in Measurement Time—

Abstract

As manufacturing processes are steadily automatized, quick and accurate mass measurement systems are in great demand. In this respect, recently, active belt conveyer ‘checkweigher’ is used by many enterprises. This system possesses a serious technical problem, in which three types of mechanical noises, that is, proper vibration, motor vibration, and belt pulley vibration, are included in detection signals. The noises should be removed to increase the accuracy. In the current mass measurement system, ‘moving average method’ is applied for the aim. However, it is not enough to realize the quick and accurate measurement. Very recently, we applied ‘frequency analysis method’ using the complex LMS algorithm for this problem. Only a signal in the stable time had to be used for real-time processing with this method. In this study, therefore, we decreased the moving average filters and increased the adjustment notch filters.