The Design of Automatic Color Sorting Machine on Conveyor Systems by Arduino Color Recognition Sensor Module

Abstract

          This research aims at designing and testing the effectiveness of the automatic color sorting machine with on conveyor systems by Arduino color recognition sensor module. It was designed to classify object, such as red, green and blue, and move objects automatically to a defined trays by the control of the PLC Board CFX1N20MT. The sensor modules color Arduino TCS230 was used for the object detection to read the amount of the intensity of light that strikes the object then reflected back to the sensor, after that converted into an electrical signal to the microcontroller to control the stepper motor in order to choose containers and color of objects to match each others. In addition, the application of this research can be used as a basis for practice in the industry, classification of printing plants, automotive plants, and electronics component manufacturing plants including other relevant automatic moving system effectively. From the result, it can be showed that the sorting machine classified the object colors as red, green, blue and other colors with high accuracy. The average classifying time of the test objects is 9.75, 9.96, and 9.96 seconds for the materials as red, green, and blue respectively.