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The Intelligent Coffee Roaster

https://www.gocoffeego.com/dbimages/148/roasting@2x.jpg Coffee roasting is widely considered to be an art form among roasters that requires immense dedication to the craftsmanship. It certainly looks like an art considering how many people can't function normally without their morning cup of coffee. Coffee roasting is arguably the key transformable step in the coffee cycle, which usually starts by harvesting coffee cherries, then drying these cherries in numerous different methods, and usually ends up in the morning mugs of office workers (figure 1). Before coffee roasting, the coffee beans hardly resemble our beloved morning coffee in taste, look or smell. As artistic as it sounds, coffee roasting can be quantified to a large degree and can be turned to a scientific and engineering discipline. The motivation behind this article is to explore the usage of mathematical modelling and artificial intelligence to aid commercial coffee roasters to achieve a high level of consistenc