Georgia Tech Researchers Formulate Intelligent Cutting And Deboning System
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Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) researchers have come up with a prototype system that employs modern imaging technology and a robotic cutting arm to automatically debone chicken. The Intelligent Cutting and Deboning System reportedly exercises a 3D vision system that regulates where to cut a specific bird. The device automatically carries out precision cuts optimizing the production, and at the same time considerably decreasing the risk of bone fragments in the completed product. Gary McMurray, chief of GTRIâs Food Processing Technology Division stated that as each bird possesses a different shape and size, an automated deboning system had to be developed which adapts itself to the individual bird, and not the other way round.
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Working- A bird is placed facing the vision system before making a cut. The vision system takes 3D measurements of several location areas on exterior of the bird. Later, custom algorithms are developed using these locations as inputs and a proper cut is estimated. The cut is made using a fixed two-degree-of-freedom cutting robot, while the bird rests at a six-degree-of-freedom robot arm. The robot arm keeps the bird subject to vision system, and then it positions the bird with respect to the cutting robot. A force-feedback algorithm can notice change from meat to bone, and this lets the  cutting knife to progress along the surface with a uniform force.
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