An automatic egg quality sorting system.

Abstract

Poultry farming being one of the most lucrative businesses in Uganda has attracted many farmers to join for commercial purposes which has led to egg production on a larger scale. This calls for a way to grade eggs to remove those that do not meet the market standards especially the ones with defects on the shells. The automatic egg sorting machine that uses image processing has been developed to automatically detect and isolate the eggs with cracked egg shells providing more efficiency, reduced costs and reliability compared to the traditional candling methods of candling and observation that employ more human labor which comes along with the related drawbacks. The system consists of a camera connected to a computer with a sorting algorithm built in MATLAB which is interfaced with the Arduino mega 2560 board on to which two servo motors are connected via the adafruit motorshield that control the movement of the eggs during the sorting process.