Automatic Machine for Sorting Colored Objects with Conveyor Belt

Abstract:

This research is to develop the automatic machine for sorting colored objects with conveyor belt. It was designed to classify colored objects such as red, green, blue and other colors by using fiber optic sensor. The microcontroller is automatically used to move the material objects along with the conveyor belt into the containers on the tray. The microcontroller is automatically used to move the materials along with the conveyor belt, and then fell into the defined containers on the tray. The fiber optic was used for the object detection to read the amount of the intensity of light that hits the object then reflected back to the sensor, after that converted into an electrical signal to the microcontroller to control the stepper motor in order to choose containers and color of objects to match each other. Design and experiments of this research can be used as a basis for practiced mechatronics engineering laboratory. In addition, the machine can be used as a model for related industries of colored sorting. From the result, it can be shown that the sorting machine classified the colored objects as red, green, blue and other color with high accuracy. The average time of the test objects is 9.96, 13.47, 16.58 and 9.04 seconds for objects as red, green, blue and other colors respectively.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 1025-1026)
• Pages: 156-161
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1025-1026.156
• Online since: September 2014
• Authors: Kataphon Prewthaisong*
• Keywords: Automatic Conveyor Belt Systems, Automatic Sorting Colored Objects, Automatic Sorting Machine

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