Automatic Sorting and Handling Station Actuated by Pneumatic Drive
Journal Title: ANALELE UNIVERSITATII DIN CRAIOVA - Seria Inginerie electrica - Year 2018, Vol 42, Issue 0
Abstract
The main path through which technical progress contributes to increasing work productivity is the automation of manufacturing processes. Applications based on robotic handling solve many problems in different areas, especially in the food, pharmaceutical, plastics, building materials, or logistics applications. The paper presents an automatic electro-pneumatic system for manipulation and sorting of parts according to color. The system is taught to sort two kinds of pieces, both white and black. Pieces of different types arrive at the input stock and are picked up by a manipulating robot, then stored in two output stocks according to color. The entire structure is integrated in an electropneumatic drive system with linear actuators (pneumatic cylinder) and rotary (rotary pneumatic motors), controlled by the solenoid valves. The manipulator robot consists of three modules (rotation, lifting, gripper actuation), and the output stock contains a rotating module for the sorting table provided with two parts warehouses. Both white and black pieces will be stored in the two storehouses. The structure is controlled by an Arduino Mega2560 microcontroller development system. The sorting station can also be controlled by the operator via a joystick and some buttons. The system designed, developed and tested can be used both in educational applications in electrical engineering and in industrial applications. In comparison to other handling systems, the robot structure is simpler. It performs the transfer of the pieces by only two movements, thus reducing the handling time.
Authors and Affiliations
Laurentiu Alboteanu, Gheorghe Manolea, Florin Ravigan
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