Edit Földvári-Nagy, InnoRenew CoE and University of Primorska PhD student, together with Dr. Jakub Sandak, InnoRenew CoE Deputy director, and Aminata Dia from CESI, recently made a video that corresponds to 105 minutes of operation, during which 1035 FT-NIR spectra were recorded.

The presented robot system is designed to acquire NIR spectra along the radial direction of wooden disks collected in the forest. The control software, developed in ABB RobotStudio, supervises the measurement protocol. The robot’s workspace is optimized for the assessment of a batch of eight wooden disks. The serial number of each sample is first scanned with a barcode reader. The diameter of the wooden disks is defined by the operator. The robot interfaces with Bruker OPUS software to trigger FT-NIR spectroscopic measurements, which are performed at every 5 mm distance from the pith towards the bark. The reference background is recorded before the start of each new sample measurement.

The video was created as part of the project “Spectroscopic Methods for Rapid Phenotyping of Trees Reflecting their Ecological Resilience (DENDRO-SPEC)”, co-financed by the National Science Centre Poland (NCN) No. UMO-2021/43/I/NZ9/02809 and the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS) N4-0274.