Control of cleaning machine cycles using machine vision

A method comprising:

• analyzing, by one or more processors, a pre-wash image of articles to be cleaned by an associated cleaning process in a wash chamber of a cleaning machine to classify the articles as belonging to one of a plurality of article types;
• analyzing, by the one or more processors, the pre-wash image to assign one of a plurality of rack volumes corresponding to a relative fullness of a rack on which the articles are supported in the wash chamber;
• and
• determining, by the one or more processors, one or more parameters for the associated cleaning process based on the classified article types and the assigned rack volume;
• receiving, by the one or more processors, sump temperature information at one or more times during execution of the cleaning process;
• and
• determining, by the one or more processors, an amount of heat energy transferred to the articles during execution of the cleaning process based on the received sump temperature information, the classified article type, and the assigned rack volume,
• in response to determining, by the one or more processors, that the amount of heat energy transferred to the articles during execution of the cleaning process does satisfy a sanitization threshold, determining, by the one or more processors, a first rinse cycle duration;
• in response to determining, by the one or more processors, that the amount of heat energy transferred to the articles during execution of the cleaning process does not satisfy the sanitization threshold, determining, by the one or more processors, an extended rinse cycle duration;
• and
• controlling, by the one or more processors, execution of a first rinse cycle based on the first rinse cycle duration or an extended rinse cycle based on the extended rinse cycle duration.