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Arduino Based Color Sorting Machine

N. Monika1, C.R. Pramod2, B.S. Vinod3

1
Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science and Engineering, Nagarjuna College of
Engineering and Technology, Bangalore, India
2,3
B.E. Student, Department of Information Science and Engineering, Nagarjuna College of Engineering
and Technology, Bangalore, India

Abstract- There is a wide range of many products in our about the automatic sorting tool which helps the
daily life, and manufacturing of this products are done sorting mechanism to kind based at the coloration.
in many large scale and small scale industries. For sensing TCS3200 coloration sensor has been
Arranging makes quality consistency issue. Nowadays
used. With the aid of reading the frequency of the
the main difficulty that is faced after the production is
output of the sensor, color primarily based absolutely
sorting when there are too many items to sort. Arrange
of items in an industry is a dull process, which is usually
sorting is completed.
done physically. But sorting of items by physical Layout of a innovative venture referred to as item
method consumes more time. To save the times and sorting system by means of spotting the only of a
have accuracy in sorting we are introducing an kind shades of the item has been leader goal of the
automatic color sorting machine. challenge. Accumulating the objects from the hopper
The color sorting machine is a device which sorts the and distributes those objects to their accurate area
object based on their color. We use Arduino, TCS3200 based on their coloration even they'll be unique in
color sensor to sense the color of any objects and after
coloration.
detecting the color servo motor grab the thing and put it
To reduce human effort on mechanical maneuvering
into respective box. They can be used in different
application areas where color identification color
different types of sorting machine are being
distinction and color sorting is important. Some of the developed. These machines are too costly due to
application areas including Agriculture industry (Grain complexity in the fabrication process. A common
sorting on the basis of color), Food industry, Diamond requirement in the field of color sorting is that of
and Mining Industry, Recycling etc color sensing and identification.
Many paintings environments aren't suitable for
Index terms- Arduino UNO, TCS3200 color Sensor, manual sorting and a few areas are risky for humans
Servo motors, Jumpers, Bread board
to paintings on. Consequently to avoid the unstable
work, time consumption and hard paintings catch 22
1. INTRODUCTION
situations. This prototype is built as simple digital
gadgets like microcontroller for processing, Servo
As the name suggests color sorting is simply to sort
motors for actions and coloration sensor for
the things according to their color. It can be easily
recognizing exclusive colored devices.
done by seeing it but when there are too many things
to be sorted and it is a repetitive task then automatic
2. APPROACH
color sorting machines are very useful. These
machines have color sensor to sense the color of any
This venture makes use of a simplified and not
object and after detecting the color servo motor grab
steeply priced technique for sorting the substances of
the thing and put it into respective box. They can be
a unique colored items, it's far sensing the color of
used in different application areas where color
the object and kind out the different colored devices.
identification, color distinction and color sorting is
Servo automobiles are used to manipulate the motion
important.
of the skittles are amassed on the hopper. A servo
Merchandise should be taken care of in numerous
motor is used to pressure the skittles to the sensor and
ranges of manufacturing and manual sorting is time
the sensor that is interfaced with ARDUINO
consuming and labor extensive. This paper discusses

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identifies the shade of the object and the bottom

servo is operated as consistent with the deliver code.

Interfacing - Arduino UNO with color Sensor and

Servomotor
Figure 1: Block Diagram of the System
Fig 3a: Fitting of sorting machine
3. METHODOLOGY
4. TECHNOLOGY FOR OBJECT SORTING
Prototype Design parameters
For making the complete set up including chassis, A. Color Sensor
arm, roller, pad, we have used the white sun board of
2mm thickness. It is easily available in the stationary
stores. We have used paper cutter to cut the sun board
sheet and FlexKwik for joining the different parts.
At first a sun board was chosen to make the structure
of the conveyer. A rectangular shaped sun board, 18
inches length and 12 inches width were selected for
the base of the structure. Two pieces of sun board,
length 14 inches, width 0.75 inches and height 5 Figure 2:TCS3200 Color Sensor
inches was selected for two horizontal support of the TCS3200 is a color sensor which can detect any
belt. The horizontal sun board were placed parallel number of colors with right programming.
and 5 inches apart from each other. These two TCS3200 contains RGB (Red Green Blue) arrays. As
horizontally directed parallel sun board support the shown in figure on microscopic level one can see the
roller so that they can rotate freely between them square boxes RGB matrix. Each of these boxes
with the help of bearings. To fix the bearing properly contain three sensors, One is for sensing Green light
with the horizontal wooden block, 4 holes in each intensity, One is for sensing Red light intensity and
wooden block was made which had diameters has the last in for sensing Blue light intensity.
same as the bearings. The whole were made by
drilling the black with a drilling machine. Then the
bearings were tightly fitted with the sun board by
hammering. Four rollers were made by turning sun
board into the lathe machine. The diameter of the
roller was 1 inch. The diameter of the smaller shaft of
the roller which coupled with the bearings was 10
centimeters.
Now a structure was made for holding the servo
motor. It was made by cutting a plastic sun board.
First a ‘u’ bend was made from the sun board. The
full structure shown in the below figure.

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Figure 2b: Arduino based Color Sensor

Each of sensor arrays in these three arrays are
selected separately depending on the requirement.
Hence it is known as programmable sensor.

B. Arduino UNO
The Arduino UNO power supply can be done with
the help of USB cable or an external power supply.
The external power supplies mainly include AC to
DC adopter otherwise a battery. The adapter can be
connected to Arduino uno by plugging into the power
jack of the Arduino board. Similarly, the battery Figure 2d : Servo motor
leads can be connected to the vin pin and the GND The Specifications of servo motor are mentioned
pin of the power connector. The suggested voltage below
range will be 7 volts to 12 volts. Arduino UNO can
 Operating voltage: 4.8 V (~5V)
detect the surroundings from the input. Here the
 Operating speed: 0.1 s/60 degree
inputs are variety of sensor and these can affect, etc.
 Stall torque: 1.8 kgf•cm
The ATmega328 microcontroller on the Arduino
 Dead band width: 10 µs
board can be programmed with the help of an
 Temperature range: 0 ºC – 55 ºC
Arduino programming language and the integrated
development environment.
5. RESULTS

The object are sorted with respect to their color and

dropped into the respective box.

Figure 2c: Arduino UNO

4. SERVO MOTOR Figure 3:Hardware Implementation of system

When any color from Red, green or blue is kept for
It is a rotary actuator or a linear actuator that allows detection in front of the color sensor then the desired
for precise control of angular or linear position, color led is turned on and the output of the sensing of
velocity and acceleration. It consists of a suitable color is seen first, we keep the green color paper on
motor coupled to a sensor for position feedback. It the top of the color sensor, it detects and turns the led
also requires a relatively sophisticated controller, on and in the same way it works for other two color.
often a dedicated module design specifically for use We have developed a sorting machine for automatic
with the servomotors color sorting, in this sorting we can easily identifies
the color indication of sorting machine.

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