Imaging and Programming Based Computation of Logistic Package Volumes Application on Automatic Mail Machines

Abstract

At  present  the  determination  of  weight  and  volume  has  been widely  used  to  assist  in  the  process  of  determining  costs  for freight forwarding services. Shipping costs are determined by the weight of the goods, but the weight of the goods consists of two types,  namely  actual  weight  and  volume  weight.  The  weight  of the weighing will be used directly if the item or box is small, but if  the  item  is  large  but  the  weight  is  real  then  the  weight  of  the volume  will be used. Algorithms that combine triangulation and 2D measurement techniques can be used to build 3D surfaces so they  can  measure  the  volume  of  a  product.  Determination  of volume in the optical scoring system can be done using the laser triangulation method and the area of 2D image measurement, then using  a  computer  algorithm  to  get  the  results  of  3D  images  to determine the volume of the object. The calculation process used in  this  study  uses  MATLAB  software.  MATLAB  is  the  most efficient software for  matrix-based numerical calculations and is widely  used  in  mathematical  calculations,  development  and algorithms,  programming  modeling,  prototyping  and  simulation, data  analysis,  exploration  and  visualization,  numerical  and statistical  analysis,  and  technical  application  development.  The results  of  the  study  using  MATLAB  include  students  becoming more  interested  in  learning  and  more  independent  in  learning mathematics,  can  visualize  data  graphically  to  help  analyze  the data  analyzed,  and  help  in  modeling  the  characteristics  of variations  in  fuel  mixtures  which  include  density,  viscosity, dynamic and kinematic viscosity.