Sorting Machine
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Date
2021
Authors
Al-Boom, Radwan
Yahya, Mohammad
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In light of today's technological development and as a result of the spread of the Coronavirus, it
has become necessary to use machines to reduce the number of workers in factories, for this
reason we decided to work on a machine that helps factories sort goods.
From our point of view, this project will help the factories to sort the goods easier and in less
time without the need for a large number of workers to do this task.
One of the most important objectives of the project: facilitating the task of sorting goods at the
lowest costs and the least number of workers by doing this automatically. The project consists of
two main parts, the first part is the arm that carries the goods from the place where they are
stored before sorting and putting them on a conveyor belt, the component of this part consists of
servo motors, NodeMCU esp8266 for wireless communication, NodeMCU motor shield and IR
sensor for detecting objects. The second part consists of a conveyor belt for the goods and it's
controlled by a DC motor and there is a camera that was connected with a raspberry pi for
making the streaming server, so that when the object passes down the camera, there will be an IR
sensor which detect this object and it will stop conveyor belt from moving to allow the camera to
take a picture to that object, and this picture will be processed by the server to determine the
shape of the captured object. The stream will be displayed on a remote device (iPad, smart
phone, etc..). The DC motor and IR sensor will be connected to an Arduino board, The server
will be the link between Part One and Part Two by sending suitable control signals.
There are many projects like ours that help factories sort goods in an efficient way, but what
distinguishes our project is that it utilizes artificial intelligence to determine the shape of the
captured object, instead of using off-the-shelf sensor units.