Design Control Circuit of Robot Arm to Detect and Collect Iron metal

Abstract

Robots arm are used for the most boring and repetitive jobs in manufacturing. Also they are used in dangerous and unpleasant jobs such as sorting and recycling wastes. So, in this research arobotic arm with three degree of freedom was designed to detect and collect the iron particles from different wastes. It was simulated with Proteus Virtual System Modeling (VSM) software, then built and tested. The model consists of a 3 servomotors which are controlled by an Atmega- 16L microcontroller programmed via BASCOM-AVR software. In this model the waste will be fed to the conveyor belt while it's moving. The metal Sensors which are clamped below the conveyor belt, will sense the iron particles and in stop the conveyor belt. A robotic arm to which an electromagnet is attached will extract the iron particles from the waste and will deposit it into a box. The other wastes will be carried on further once the iron particles are extracted and dumped into a waste box.