DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT A SCARA ROBOT FOR CLASSIFY PRODUCTS USING IMAGE PROCESSING

In this paper, a SCARA robot arm is designed and developed using stepper motor to classify objects according to their color.  Four stepper motors are mounted at each joint of the robot to provide precise movement. The Arduino Mega board is used to create signal for stepper motor driver. The mechanical model of the robot is designed on the Autodesk Inventor software. All links of robot is fabrication by laser cutting method. The assembly of the parts of the robot and the motor’s mechanical shapes produce the final prototype of the arm. The Arduino has been programmed to provide rotation to each corresponding servo motor to the sliders in the designed mobile application for usage from distance. Product classification algorithm will be developed to detect objects based on color. The robot will pick up the products to different positions according to the detected color.