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标题：Design and Fabrication of a Programmable Selective Sorting System
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作者：Manas Choudhary ; Rishabh Narang ; Pradeep Khanna 等
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.
关键词：Feeder; Microcontroller; Programmable; Smart Sorting