%0 Journal Article %A Sutthawee Suwannarat and Thanate Khaorapapong and Mitchai Chongcheawchamnan %D 2011 %J International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 57, 2011 %T Predicting Oil Content of Fresh Palm Fruit Using Transmission-Mode Ultrasonic Technique %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/13567 %V 57 %X In this paper, an ultrasonic technique is proposed to predict oil content in a fresh palm fruit. This is accomplished by measuring the attenuation based on ultrasonic transmission mode. Several palm fruit samples with known oil content by Soxhlet extraction (ISO9001:2008) were tested with our ultrasonic measurement. Amplitude attenuation data results for all palm samples were collected. The Feedforward Neural Networks (FNNs) are applied to predict the oil content for the samples. The Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of the FNN model for predicting oil content percentage are 7.6186 and 5.2287 with the correlation coefficient (R) of 0.9193. %P 1073 - 1076