Design, fabrication and integration of coveying system with robotic arm

• Main Authors: Muhammad Naufal, A Rahman, Zol Bahri, Razali
• Other Authors: [e-mail]
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) 2016
• Subjects: Conveyor; Robotic arm; Mechanical gripper; Glass-handling
• Online Access: http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/40739

The title of the project is design, fabrication and integration of conveying system with robotic arm. As required, the document shows the design of the conveyor with robotic arm in detail and the chronology of the project. Mild steel and aluminum profile was used to construct the main body of the conveyor and reflected sensor was implementing to recognize glass to stop the conveyor. Plastic material was used to construct the body of the robotic arm, and an optional sensor was implemented to provide basic recognition of the object to be carried. The conveyor used one 240 AC motor to coving the conveyor belt. The robotic arm used four servomotors for overall operation; three for its joints, and one for the gripping mechanism. The gripper was designed and fabricated using aluminum sheet due to the high strenght-to-density ratio of the material. The operation of the conveyor and robotic arm was governed by Basic Stamp programming sequence and the device was expected to differentiate glass and other objects based on reflective theory, and perform subsequence operations afterwards. The CAD software, SolidWorks was used to model the detail design of the conveyor with robotic arm, and to stimulate the motion of the device.