Performance analysis using automated color sorting robot for industrial purposes

Abstract

The system consists of one industrial robot as well as conveyor belt driven by a programmable logic controller (PLC). A Purpple-Fuchs color sensor model VCS- 110K that can detect up to 10 colors is connected to the system to detect the color of the specimen. This color detection will work as a trigger signal to be sent to the robot controller to sort the specimen in a box accordingly with respect to the color. Yellow color bars were set to location 1(pallet 1), orange color bars were set to location 2(pallet 2) whereas cyan, green and red color bars were set to location (pallet) 3, 4 and 5 respectively. Performance analysis (Graph Completion Task Time versus Speed) is conducted to estimate the detection response between the primary color and the secondary color.