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Automatic Gadget Charger Using Coin Detection: September 2015
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Abstract—In this communication era, mobile -telephone in- battery charging system is designed to resolve the problem
dustry has grown profoundly. The urban population uses the of low battery. This could also be useful in the event of
latest mobile-phone technology while the rural population buys unpredictable grid power and availability of abundant solar
second hand ones, mostly with degraded battery, that require power. This proposal for a coin based universal mobile battery
frequent charging. This battery-problem becomes a giant when charger is presented in this paper.
user doesnt have a standard charger or an electricity connection.
In this paper, researchers intent is to propose a public coin The user has to plug the mobile phone into one of the
based mobile battery charging system. By using image processing adapters and insert a coin; the phone will then be given a
techniques, value of the coin has been detected for a limited time, micro-pulse for charging. It does not bring a mobile from
it will charge the device accordingly. A suitable microcontroller ’dead’ to fully charged state. The charging capacity of the
is programmed for all the controlling applications. The source
for charging is obtained either from a direct power grid or by
mobile is designed with the help of predefined values. It is, of
solar energy. course, possible to continue charging the mobile by inserting
more coins.
Keywords- Image processing; Charging system; coin detec-
tion; Circuit designing. The solar power application to battery charging has been
studied in the past. Solar chargers convert light energy into
direct current for a range of voltage that can be used for
I. INTRODUCTION charging the battery. In this paper, the design and development
Mobile phones, being an essential technological advance- of a coin based universal mobile battery charger based on the
ment, have enabled every individual to keep in contact with main power and solar power has been discussed. This is of
any niche of the globe. They have become a major source of prime importance in rural areas where the mobiles are basic
communication, be it with regards to the business aspect or needs for communication and the main power is not available
personal communication. all the time.
The electromagnetic method based systems can differenti- on its value. The system is proposed to design coin recognition
ate between different materials because, in these systems, the by applying heuristic approach, based on the coin table. This
coins pass through an oscillating coil at a certain frequency table stores parameters of each coin. This paper concentrates
and different materials bring different changes in the amplitude on affine transformations such as scaling, shearing and so
and direction of frequency. Thus these changes and the other on. This method returns 97of result in recognizing the coin
parameters like diameter, thickness, weight and magnetism can icon. [5] Hussein R. Al-Zoubi et al. in 2010 suggested a
be utilized to distinguish between coins. The electromagnetic coin recognition method using a statistical approach to classify
method based coin recognition systems improve the accuracy Jordanian coins. There are seven different coins used in Jordan:
of recognition but still they can be duped by some game coins. 500fils, 250fils, 100fils, 50fils, 25fils, 10fils, and 5fils. Color
[1] and area of a coin was the central feature for sorting. First
convert the colored image into grey level and then apply the
threshold value to convert it into black and white image. Then
B. Related Projects
the binary image is cleaned by opening and closing through
R. Bremananth et al. in 2005 proposed a system that erosion and dilation, after that calculate the value of each RGB
focuses only on the numerals rather than the use of other color. Then on the basis of these value decisions is made that
images presented on the front and rear side of the coin. For to which category the coin belongs. Total 1050 experiments,
experiment they used 1-rupee, 2-rupee, and 5-rupee Indian 150 for each coin were carried out to examine the proposed
coin. Extract numeral image from the given coin image and system. The Accuracy rate achieved was 9
this image is used for character recognition process. This C. M. Velu and P. Vivekanandan et al. in 2011 presented a
suggested approach can easily be carried out in whatever methodology for Indian Coin Recognition and Sum Counting
real time business transactions. The system resulting from System of Image Data Mining Using Artificial Neural Net-
this research recognizes numerals using neural pattern analysis works. The objective of this paper is to classify, recognize
with a 92.43% success rate of our test data. [2] and count the total value of newly released Indian coin s of
Lu Zhang et al. in 2005-06 developed a program, as disser- different denomination, in terms of Indian National Rupees.
tation work, for counting coins in computer vision approach The characteristics of old coins and new coins of different
using MATLAB. The main purpose of this project is to apply designations are considered for classification. In this paper, it
computer vision techniques to develop a program which should is proposed to introduce ML-CPNN approach. This approach
recognize coins in an image, and enumerate their value. That is then compared with other approaches. The Roberts edge
is to have a computer, read the image and calculated the total detection method gives 93% of accuracy and Laplacian of
value of the coins which are on the image. In that respect are Gaussian method 95% of the result, the Canny edge detection
various techniques involved, such as image color segmentation, method yields 97.25% result and the ML-CPNN approach
image edge detection, noise filtering, and Hough transforma- yields 99.47% of recognition rate. [7]
tion and hence along. The key to accomplish this project is Vaibhav Gupta et al. in 2011 presented a method based on
the color segmentation of coins and edge enhancement, which image subtraction for recognition of Indian coins of different
separates coins with their color difference and provides the denomination. The Process performs 3 checks (radius, coarse
efficiency. After the computer programs are established, an and fine) on the input image. Instantly compute the radius of
experiment which applies the programs with UK coins shows the input image and then based on the radius a test image is
that it works well and the error depends on the qualities of the selected from the database. Then subtraction between the input
coins images. A database containing a large number of images image and database image is done. By plotting the resultant
is required for the use of this method. [3] values we obtain a lower limit value which if less than a
Adnan Khashman et al. in 2006 proposed an intelligent standard threshold provides the identification of the coin. [8]
coin identification system (ICIS) that uses coin patterns for Shatrughan Modi et al. in 2011 presented an Artificial
identification helps preventing confusion between different Neural Network based Automated Coin Recognition System
coins of similar physical dimensions. For recognition of rotated for Indian coins. They used Indian coins of denominations
coins of various degrees, ICIS used pattern averaging and neu- ‘1, ‘2, ‘5, and ‘10. This system takes images of coins from
ral network. In pre-processing phase ICIS apply thresholding, both sides. First of all apply pre-processing for images like
cropping, compressing, trimming, pattern averaging on images. cropping, trimming, pattern averaging, etc. and then passed
And then neural network is trained using these images. ICIS the input data set to Neural Network for training. 4536 images
used 1 TL and 2 EURO coins in recognition. ICIS used a 3layer are used for training and 252 images are used for validation
back propagation neural network with 400 input neurons, 25 and testing each. It eased back propagation neural network
hidden neurons and 2- output neuron. The neural network is with 400 input units, 30 hidden layers and 14 output units.
trained using 20 images out of available 120 coin images. The This system gives 97.74% recognition rate. [9]
Accuracy rate achieved was 96.3%. [4]
Saranya das.Y.M et al. in 2013 presented a system to
C. M. Velu and P. Vivekanandan et al. in 2009 developed classify Indian coins discharged recently. This system is based
a system for the Indian coin recognition system of image on Advanced Harris -Hessian Algorithm, used the parameters
segmentation by heuristic approach and Hough transformation such as size, weight, surface, etc. of coins and also used
method. This system is developed mainly to classify the coins the concept of rotation invariance. The primary goals of this
offered in the Hundi by the devotees of Tirumala Tirupati project are: Recognize the coins, count the coins and then get
Devasthanam (TTD), Tirupati, India. The objective is to count the total value. First, we apply preprocessing of the image and
money by recognizing the coins and count the total sum based then pre-processed images are passed to the Harris -Hessian
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VI. CONCLUSION
After understanding the related articles, literatures and
analysis of a few similar projects, the current design strategy
was selected. Various development stages were planned and
Fig. 3. Working Stage of System finally the whole system was implemented. In entirety, the
developed system is able to attain the primary objectives. Nu-
merous subgoals is achieved like, value detection of the coin,
a. Convert the RGB image to graysca separate the
controlling the communication between various components
background from the reg (ROI).
and mainly image processing.
b. Check between which limits the av all five images
lies between- the upper limit of either one rupee coin
or two ru VII. FUTURE SCOPE
c. Based on which ever threshold interv value lies
display the value of that coin As discussed in the previous sections, there is a need
3) At the end stop the video input. The following of various enhancements that leads to the future scope of
algorithm (run coin used to identify the coin in the proposed system. Firstly, image processing embedded
the image provide appropriate information microcon- systems techniques may improve the throughput of present
troller. system. Secondly, paper currency identification and recognition
techniques can also be applied for the betterment of this
Algorithm: project. With these enhancements one can commercialize it
for the public usage.
1) Start a serial communication computing device and
the microcontrol
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