Middle East Journal of Applied Science & Technology (MEJAST) (Peer Reviewed International Journal) Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 15-18, January-March 2020
Design and Performance Analysis of Line Following Robot V.Saraswathi1, K.Sneha2, Ruby Shanthi3 & Shyama.S4 1,2,3,4
UG Scholar, Department of ECE, Francis Xavier Engineering College, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu, India. Email: vsaraswathi1999@gmail.com1
Article Received: 12 November 2019
Article Accepted: 19 January 2020
Article Published: 14 February 2020
ABSTRACT A lecture of robotics describes the techniques to analyze and to control the material supply in various sectors. A long ago, the work of human beings were done manually. As far as, the technology has been developed. In order to reduce their work load, effort and for time consumption various electrical and electronic applications were introduced. Then later the inventions have been more developed and it gave the evolution of robots and robotics. Robots are not new. They are already in existence. Their application is essential in the modern world. Thus the concept of this paper is to develop and design a line following robot for various applications such as in railway stations, hotels, pharmaceutical industry etc. Keywords: Robotics, Line following robot, IR Sensor, LED.
1. INTRODUCTION In 1810, the first modern robot was made Friedrich Kauffman from Dresden, Germany created this. A remote controlled robot was built in the year 1898 by Nikola Tesla. At Madison Square Garden it was demonstrated. The first robot toy was invented in Japan, in 1932. It was named as “Lilliput”. The first real robot was created in 1950 by George Devol. It was named as Unimate. Joseph Engleberger in 1960 developed an industrial robot and sold it under the label Unimation. Thus Joseph is known as “The Father of Robotics”. Line following robot is a machine. It follows a white line on a black surface or a black line on a white surface. If the construction of a line following robot is done using a microcontroller it will too big and costly and the understanding will be tough. To overcome these problems in this project the line following robot is made simple with simple circuitry. The two types of line following robots include the black line follower and the white line follower. Usually a line following robot traces a line and it runs over it. It can be incorporated in the Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) to provide ease of operation. 2. EXISTING SYSTEM Basically the AGV is designed using microprocessor to control their systems. To travel in the desired path it uses a position feedback. To communicate with the system controller and vehicle, electric signals and RF communication are needed. Such functions are not required in this line following robot. Usually, carriers are required to carry the products from one plant to another plant in the industry. They are in different blocks and buildings. It consumes a lot of time and it will be difficult if all the work have to be done by mankind. The working will be most easy if the manpower is reduced by electronic gadgets. Thus for time consumption and better facility the electronic applications are required nowadays in this busy world. 3. PROPOSED SYSTEM Nowadays many developments have been made. Such as battery cars are used in railway stations to go from one platform to other platform and to carry their luggage. In this expo, an idea of automatic transfer of products have been implemented. This line following robot traces the path and detects using the sensor. It is used for transportation and other domestic purposes. Here, IR sensors are only used to sense and travel in the black lines. 15 | P a g e
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