Feedback Controlled Variable Electric Field System for Smart Contactless Gripper

Abstract

Variable electric field has a large amount of applications nowadays, which is used in automation in industry. Minimization of the hardware at all levels in automation and industry are the key important which are important to increase the usefulness and productivity of all system. One of the applications of electric field is in Van de Graff generator. Electric Field is also used to measure cell and tissue properties. In this research work presented here is based around the development of a fuzzy based feedback controlled variable electric field system using HFO. This research is central to advanced industrial applications like contactless gripper, ion implantation and silicon chip placement. We have developed a system that is able to generate, control and monitor variable electric field. The developed system is capable of producing variable fields and the proposed system can be implemented in many dynamic environments. The designed system also monitors and measures the field produced by the developed electric field generator. Developed model has been executed on simulation tools. After finalization of design parameters, hardware of the system has been developed. The developed hardware has the capability of generating variable Electric Field using solid state tesla coil. Sensor for field measurement has been incorporated by using National Instruments DAQ USB 6001. The same sensor provides feedback to controller which controls, monitors and updates the field according to the user’s requirement.