期刊名称：Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science
印刷版ISSN：2078-0958
电子版ISSN：2078-0966
出版年度：2018
卷号：2237&2238
页码：558-563
出版社：Newswood and International Association of Engineers
摘要：Modern manufacturing techniques require high degree
of automation. It is of importance to enable our manufacturing
systems to deliver the required products in right quantity, quality
and at low cost. Modern machines in the manufacturing industry
perform highly specialized and complex tasks for which they need
to be fed with inputs in a right manner.in fact, certain machines
require input parts in a particular orientation, feature and speed.
Present work was inspired from the survey carried out in the field
of manufacturing automation with specific emphasis on discrete
part feeding. Vibratory bowl feeders are used since long for
discrete part feeding on assembly lines. They are capable of
feeding a large variety of parts and make a useful contribution in
such feeding applications in industry. The feeder however is
primarily designed to feed only one type of part at a time. A vast
technical literature is available dealing with the optimization of
feed rate of various components under different sets of input
conditions. However, very less work is available pertaining to the
selective feeding of components, which might be useful for feeding
the flexible or mixed assembly lines catering to batch production
runs. Hence the present work aims at designing and developing a
smart identification and sorting system capable of color sensing
and spatial orientation of parts to ensure that parts with
preselected color and orientation only are allowed to react the
delivery point of the feeder. Moreover, the developed system is
programmable and has the flexibility of pre-selecting desired
features of the parts to be fed out of a lot having an assortment of
parts with different features. The designed system makes use an
Arduino based microcontroller along with several electronic
sensors and actuators to accomplish the task in a mistake-proof
manner.
