RECOGNITION OF OPTIMALLY RIPEN STAGE OF OIL PALM BUNCH USING

NI VISION

A Project Report
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of degree
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING
IN
ELECTRONICS & INSTRUMENTATION
ENGINEERING

Submitted by
VARUN.DAMARAJU
661455057
JYOTHIRMAYI.P K.V.SUNEEL KUMAR
661455013 661455061

DINESH.GOLLA ANUSHA.P
661455010 661455005

Under the well regarded guidance of

M.N.V.L.M. KRISHNA

Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

SIR C R REDDY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
(Affiliated to Andhra University)
ELURU
2008-2009
 SIR C R REDDY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
ELURU
(Affiliated to Andhra University)
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION
ENGINEERING

CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the project work titled” RECOGNITION OF

OPTIMALLY RIPEN STAGE OF OIL PALM BUNCH USING NI VISION” has been
successfully completed by the following students.

VARUN.DAMARAJU

661455057

JYOTHIRMAYI.P K.V.SUNEEL KUMAR

661455013 661455061

DINESH.GOLLA ANUSHA.P

661455010 661455005

During the academic year 2008-2009 as a partial fulfillment of the academic

requirements for the award of Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electronics and
Instrumentation Engineering of Andhra University.

Prof. C.S.DATTATREYA M.N.V.L.M.KRISHNA

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT PROJECT GUIDE
 CONTENTS

Chapters Page No

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

ABSTRACT

1. INTRODUCTION 1

1.1) Origin of the project 3

1.2) Trial Experimentation 4

1.3) Block Diagram 7

2. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 9

2.1) Oil Palm 10

2.2) Image Processing 16

3. HARDWARE DETAILS 26

4. METHODOLOGY 29

4.1) Determination of Chlorophyll Content 31

4.2) Determination of Carotene Content 32

4.3) Determination of Oil Content 33

4.4) Image Analysis 34

5. SOFTWARE 36

5.1) Acquisition Mode 37

5.2) Browsing Mode 42

5.3) Processing Mode 44

6. APPLICATIONS 52

7. RESULT 52

8. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE EXPANSION 58

BIBLIOGRAPHY 59
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We express our most sincere and grateful acknowledgement to this sanctum

SIR C R REDDY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING for giving us the opportunity to
fulfill our aspiration and become engineers.

We are thankful to our principal Dr. Y.V.S.S.S.V. Prasada Rao for

providing us with the necessary facilities to carry out this project. We wish to express our
deep gratitude to Head of the Department Prof. C.S. Dattatreya for his constant
encouragement throughout the project.

We also express our sincere thanks to our project coordinator Prof. V.

RAJESH for his valuable suggestions for the completion of our project.

We express our whole-hearted gratitude to our guide M.N.V.L.M.

KRISHNA for his well regard guidance in selection and completion of the project. We feel
it to be a great privilege to work under his guidance.

We sincerely thank Dr. K. SUNIL KUMAR, scientist, NRCOP for

extending his support towards our project.

We also express our deep and profound gratitude to Sri D. Radha Krishna,
Librarian of the college, who helped in providing different books to complete our project.

We are grateful to our entire Department Teaching and Non-Teaching

staff who involved directly or indirectly in making our project a great success.

We are thankful to our Parents for their valuable support in the completion
of this project successfully.

Last but not the least, we are thankful to our Friends who clarified the
doubts during the completion of our project.

PROJECT ASSOCIATES
ANUSHA.P
DINESH.GOLLA
JYOTHIRMAYI.P
SUNEEL KUMAR K.V
VARUN.DAMARAJU