To Develop Fully Automated Conveyor Belt for Industries that Automatically Sorts Out Products on the Basis of Their Shapes (Square, Rectangle and Triangle).

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2. Project Title
Design And Development of Automated Conveyor To
Sort Out Different Shapes For Industrial Purposes
Group Members
 Mudassir Bashir (UW-17-MTS-BSC-048)
 Hasan Rashid (UW-17-MTS-BSC-019)
 Project Supervisor
Miss Nazo Haroon
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3. OBJECTIVE
To Develop Fully Automated Conveyor Belt for Industries
that Automatically Sorts Out Products on the Basis of Their
Shapes (Square, Rectangle and Triangle).
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4. Problem Statement
 Our project will increase the industrial productivity and its efficiency
by eliminating the human error by transforming it to fully automated
monitoring system.
 Industries save too much time with the help of automation and their
productivity increases. Quality of product is much better because
there are less chances of human error.
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5. Content List
 Objective 3
 Problem statement 4
 Figures 6
 Block Diagram______________________________________8
 Flow Chart _______________________________________9
 Methodology________________________________________10
 Components 11
 Applications 12
 Gantt Chart 16
 References 17
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6. FIGURES
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7. Hardware
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8. BLOCK DIAGRAM 8

9. Flow Chart
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10. Methodology
 Our conveyor belt consists of 3 linear actuators to separate the desired shapes
objects.(Square, Rectangle & Triangle)
 We use a microcontroller and a camera to recognize the shapes.
 When we put objects of desired shapes on the conveyor belt, ultrasonic
sensor senses the object and conveyor belt starts running.
 If the shape is other than the desired shape, then camera get image of the
object and sends it to microcontroller where image is processed.
 We write a proper code to sort out the objects of desired shapes on the basis
of its size and shape, then move the linear actuator to separate the object.
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11. Literature Review
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Year of Publication Methodology
10 May, 2016 They give an automated system in which raspberry pi
3 and a USB camera are used for detecting size and
shape of objects. In this project those objects are
discarded which are not of desired shape or size and
then they are pushed away from belt. To separate
unnecessary objects linear actuators are used. The
open Cv is used for the detection of shapes of the
objects. They used proper technique to find the
distance between objects in region that is similar to
shape that they desire. They used different boxes to
sort out for their project.
General Conference
This research is done in 10 May, 2016 by
Sheela, Shivaram, Meghashree, Monica,
Prathima, Shria.M.Kumar from
Telecommunication department,institute of
Don Bosco, Bengalore, Karnataka, India.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329056573_Object_Sorting_using_Image_Processing

12. Literature Review
Year of Publication Methodology
MAY 18th & 19th 2018 This design uses a low cost hardware and open source
programming language and image processing libraries
for achieving the goal of sorting objects. CPU is used
to process the images from the webcam and Raspberry
Pi 3 with Linux operating system is used as the
controlling unit to drive various hardware devices.
The CPU acts as a server and the Raspberry Pi acts as
a client. The CPU will send a command to the
Raspberry Pi when an object a particular object is
detected. The Raspberry Pi client will receive the
command and runs the corresponding script for
driving the stepper motor, based on the object
detected. The server and client model separates the
software and hardware operation and will speed up the
process in real time.
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General Conference
IEEE International Conference on
Recent Trends in Electronics,
Information & Communication
Technology (RTEICT-2018),
 https://www.aconf.org/conf_123974

13. Components
Hardware:
Our hardware consists of following components
 Conveyor belt
 Microcontroller
 Camera
 Ultrasonic sensor
 DC gear motor 12V
 DC gear motors 9V
 Linear Actuators
 Boxes
 Desired Shapes
Software:
 MPLAB.xIDE
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14. APPLICATIONS
 Industrial automation is the creation of technology and its
application in order to control and monitor the production and
delivery of various goods and services.
 Industrial automation application is the use of control systems, such
as computers or robots, and information technologies for handling
different processes and machineries in an industry to replace a
human being.
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15. Future Scope
 Our future scope is to develop smart industrial environment
where all parts of industry i.e. manufacturing base, assembly line
and conveyor belt are connected with microcontroller and take
their decisions smartly without the intervention of humans.
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16. GANTT CHART 16

17. References
 https://www.hiotron.com/iot-and-industrial-automation/
 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7396554/
 https://davra.com/internet-of-things-iot-in-industrial-automation/
 https://www.rfpage.com/applications-of-industrial-internet-of-
things/
 https://www.electronicslovers.com/2018/01/internet-of-things-in-
industrial-automation.html
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