Color Guided Vehicle - An Intelligent Material Handling Mechatronic System

摘要

Industries established earlier were using material handling systems which were time consuming, less efficient, demanded more manpower, which ultimately increases the manufacturing lead time. As a result of that, productivity reduces. To overcome these demerits, industries need an efficient system, which can be automatically controlled. Such concept has been demonstrated in this paper. Vehicle has been developed by using concepts of electric drives, ElectroPneumatics, machine vision, microcontroller (Arduino) and Zigbee wireless module. For human machine interface, Matlab GUI toolbox is used (windows 8 touch screen) in this paper. The color guided vehicle (CGV) will convey the object to the desired destination according to its color. Moreover the undesired object will be rejected instantly by pneumatic system. Such a vehicle or a system works as a color detector automated guided vehicle. Therefore here developed CGV can be considered as an intelligent material handling Mechatronic system.