Autonomous Sorting Conveyor

Abstract

Sorting procedures are required in many industries, such as manufacturing, where strict quality control must be maintained. Every sorting process is different, but generally consists of looking at objects dispersed on a moving conveyor belt, finding individual items, recognizing relevant characteristics that are acceptable or unacceptable, and capturing them to perform the necessary separation where applicable. With the development of the Internet, online shopping has become more and more popular. Currently, most of the types of logistics on the market are manual goods classification, and types of manual goods are inefficient and prone to errors. Although very few logistics companies use machines to sort goods, these machines are usually sent in one direction and the position of the goods on the machine is random, these sorters do not can efficiently categorize goods let alone route planning independently for goods and chooses the optimal path for them. Sorting and separating packages have been revolutionized with the help of a customized conveyor table which uses Omni-wheels instead of the conventional conveyor belts to align and separate packages in all possible directions with a better throughput and higher productivity rate. In our prototype we shall be using a sorting table consisting free rotational wheels which will allow sorting of boxes to be highly efficient with low maintenance cost and with boosted throughput.