Part Identification System for a Flexible Feeder using Proximity Sensors
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Low Cost
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<p>A part feeder intakes identical parts of arbitrary orientation and provides output in uniform orientation. A flexible feeder is capable of handling parts of several sizes. The two important modules of a flexible part feeder are (i) identification of part (ii) adjustments to accommodate the incoming part. This paper aims at first module i.e. developing a low cost part identification system using two proximity sensors and thereby eliminating the use of costlier vision systems. The proposed part identification system using two capacitive type proximity sensors was effective in identifying the size of incoming parts and the efficiency of the system was around 84.6%.</p>