Pick and Place Color Sorting Robotic Arm

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Pick and Place Color Sorting Robotic Arm

Design, Analysis and Fabrication of Pick & Place Color Sorting Robotic Arm
7 pages
Kunal N. Palasdeokar,
Abhishek A. Chavan,
Mihirkumar N. Panchal,
Rohini D. Patil
Student,
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering,
Sinhgad College of Engineering,
Maharashtra, India

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Abstract:

Sorting of packages is the most tedious, labor intensive and repetitive work in industries. Scanning number of objects and placing them on required conveyer consumes a lot of human effort while in case of heavy and bulky packages it becomes very difficult for worker to ensure smooth process and also some error while sorting might occur. With introduction of automated robotic arm, the human effort can be eliminated at a large extent without any error. The prime objective of this project is to design and develop a robotic arm that sorts the packages and place it at desired location. The heart of this project is Arduino microcontroller which controls the servomotors used in links. An algorithm is developed which runs the microcontroller to deliver desired output. After performing simulations and number of testings, a robotic arm for mentioned application is achieved.

iN today’s industry, a robot/robotic arm is found easily. One can find an automated mechanical assistant for the worker in most of the factories. The automation of robotic processes is an essential process for industrial environments in the recent years, since it improves quality while reducing the time needed to accomplish certain tasks. A robotic arm can easily perform numerous tasks that might be laborious for workers.

In this paper, a method is presented to sort the objects based on color coded system. Color-based detection captured by the sensor is used as data to create commands through serial communication to the robotic arm controller to pick and reposition the object.

With increasing industrialization and mass production of products, warehouse management has become a major part of the industry but, as this part is mostly labor oriented there are so many short comings. The time consumed is much more, the lifting and placing of objects require much more labor, human error in sorting of different packages, etc are some of such problems. Here automation makes the work easy and efficient. Robotic arm easily sorts and places the package and places it at the desired location, thus making the process more efficient and faster.

In order to assemble products efficiently and quickly, robots are used to pick up the parts from incoming conveyors and assemble them with high precision on the desired conveyor. Robot instantaneously picks and separates different types of parts passing through its vision domain.