ROBOTIC ARM CONTROLLING USING IMAGE PROCESSING IN MATLAB
ABSTRACT
We all know that a major portion of import and export goods are supplied through out the world by cargo ships. From these cargo ships the containers arrived would contain different products. Till now the sorting of these containers according to the commodities contained is done manually up to some extend. Our project is to make this process more easier. The system we would like to make can sort these containers according to their colour. This project will be reliable only if the containers carrying same commodity have same colour. Here colour identification is done by a camera which should be operated under an image processing algorithm done in MATLAB.
The basic idea was to pick up selected colored object(red, green, blue) from the board and drop it to the destination container. An image processing algorithm that distinguished red, blue or green colors from captured image of an object. The captured image (camera was placed vertically upward) of that object placed in the board and fed that image into computer. Then processing algorithm in MATLAB processes the image to select which one to pick. Then there exist an embedded portion (Robotic arm) containing parallel ports to make an interface between camera and the hardware that sorts the container. We assure that if our project has been done successfully, it will be a great advantage to the cargo industry. A robotic arm is a type of mechanical arm, usually programmable, with similar functions to a human arm; the arm may be the sum total of the mechanism or may be part of a more complex robot.
ABSTRACT
We all know that a major portion of import and export goods are supplied through out the world by cargo ships. From these cargo ships the containers arrived would contain different products. Till now the sorting of these containers according to the commodities contained is done manually up to some extend. Our project is to make this process more easier. The system we would like to make can sort these containers according to their colour. This project will be reliable only if the containers carrying same commodity have same colour. Here colour identification is done by a camera which should be operated under an image processing algorithm done in MATLAB.
The basic idea was to pick up selected colored object(red, green, blue) from the board and drop it to the destination container. An image processing algorithm that distinguished red, blue or green colors from captured image of an object. The captured image (camera was placed vertically upward) of that object placed in the board and fed that image into computer. Then processing algorithm in MATLAB processes the image to select which one to pick. Then there exist an embedded portion (Robotic arm) containing parallel ports to make an interface between camera and the hardware that sorts the container. We assure that if our project has been done successfully, it will be a great advantage to the cargo industry. A robotic arm is a type of mechanical arm, usually programmable, with similar functions to a human arm; the arm may be the sum total of the mechanism or may be part of a more complex robot.