Ng Hock Seng, Siti Khadijah binti Mohd Pauzi, Nur Liyana Binti Azmi and Mohd Rizal bin Manan
Keywords: automated material sorting system, colour detection, robotic arm
Abstract: This project focuses on an automated material handling system based on colour detection. Nowadays, many automation techniques are being applied or adopted in industry for increase in productivity, for better quality, for better accuracy, minimizing the human errors and for safety purpose. A sorting robot arm based on colour detection is one such advancement in automatic system. It aims in identifying or determining the colour objects which are coming along the conveyor by picking up the objects and dropping it to its respective pre-programmed place. In this project, the colour sensor will senses the candy’s colour and transfer the colour into signal form and then send to the microcontroller for processing. The microcontroller will then sends a command to the circuit where it drives the servo motor of the robotic arm to pick up the object and place it to a predetermined location. The robot arm will then back to its original position after placing the previous object. This process will keep repeated until there is an off button being pushed. This candy sorting arm robot is developed with the purpose of reducing human observational error, minimizing the cost, and improving the sensitivity on the colour recognition. Overall, this sorting arm robot has 95.67% of accuracy.