Robotics and Automation in the Food Industry: Current and Future Technologies

摘要

Part 1 Introduction, key technologies and significant areas of development: Automatic process control for the food industry: An introduction Robotics in the food industry: An introduction Sensors for automated food process control: an introduction Machine vision in the food industry Optical sensors and online spectroscopy for automated quality and safety inspection of food products Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and related systems for automated process control in the food industry: An introduction Gripper technologies for food industry robots Wireless sensor networks (WSN) in agriculture and the food industry Intelligent quality control systems in food processing based on fuzzy logic Advanced methods for the control of food processes: The case of bioconversion in a fed-batch reactor. Part 2 Robotics and automation in particular unit operations and industry sectors: Automation and robotics for bulk sorting in the food industry Automatic control of food chilling and freezing Robotics and automation in meat processing Robotics and automation in the poultry industry: Current technology and future trends Robotics and automation in seafood processing Robotics and automation in the fresh produce industry Robotics, automation and packaging in the confectionery industry Automatic control of batch thermal processing of canned foods Automation for a sustainable food industry: Computer aided analysis and control engineering methods.