• Evaluation of moisture sensors for cotton bales.

• Single camera measurement of color, trash, and moisture.

• Development of a resistance-type portable lint moisture meter.

• Resistance-type moisture meter for gin drying control.

• Field evaluation of resistance measurement techniques for determining the moisture content of cotton.

• Develop resistance measurement equipment and techniques for determining the moisture content of cotton during classification.

• Field evaluation of infrared measurement techniques for determining the moisture content of cotton.

• Laboratory calibration of a dielectric moisture monitoring system in conjunction with a paddle-type sampler.

• Measuring the moisture of module bottoms.

• Restoring moisture to seed cotton and lint.

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• Methodology to predict the stickiness of cotton.

• Improvement of calibration for HVI type color and trash measuring equipment used on-line in gins.

• Improvement of color and trash measurements with color image processing.

• Analysis of cotton quality factors based on classical light scattering theory.

• Calibration of a resistance-type moisture sensor in conjunction with a flapper-type seed cotton sampler.

• Portable trash sensor.

• Portable moisture sensor.

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• Development of performance characteristics of gin machinery.

• Development of the relationship between gin classing and AMS classing as function of machines.

• Optimization of machine performance.

• Developing new machines.

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• Development of a Neural Net to represent a gin system.

• Neural networks to replace the dynamic programming model of a cotton ginning system.

• Revision of the dynamic programming model of a cotton ginning system.

• Mathematical models of machine parameters.

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• Evaluation of process control equipment in field gins.

• Field evaluation of portable video techniques for determining the color and trash content of cotton.

• Field evaluation of methods to repair cotton bales.

• Field evaluation of methods to reduce the the force required to package cotton bales.

• Field evaluation of methods to measure the moisture in cotton bales.

• Field evaluation of louvered lint cleaners.

• Field evaluation of reduced-waste lint cleaners.

• Field evaluation of combined cylinder and saw cleaner for lint.

• Sensing of moisture in cotton bales at gins.

• Sensing of noise levels in gins.

• Reduction of noise in field gins.

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