Automated Industrial Robotic Arm for High-Speed Assembly Lines
To develop an Autonomous Robotic Arm that can remove defective items off the conveyor belt with rapid and high precision movement. This will greatly reduce human error, significantly improve speed and efficiency of the system.
2025-06-28 16:30:23 - Adil Khan
Automated Industrial Robotic Arm for High-Speed Assembly Lines
Project Area of Specialization RoboticsProject SummaryTo develop an Autonomous Robotic Arm that can remove defective items off the conveyor belt with rapid and high precision movement. This will greatly reduce human error, significantly improve speed and efficiency of the system.
Project Objectives- Implementing a system to automate the process of object-positional manipulation of defective products from the assembly line using a high-speed robotic arm
- To minimize human error, significantly improve the speed and efficiency of the system
We will be using the SCRUM method for our project implementation While Agile is more
of a set of guiding principles, Scrum works within the Agile framework to provide a
specific set of rules for project management. This includes processes for identifying
tasks, resources, completion dates, etc. Scrum is designed for fast delivery, with rapid
feedback cycles and responsive change which is a much needed requirement by the complex nature of our high-end robotics project. Close collaboration will be a primary element of our approach. Also our team works on sprints together and conducts short,daily standup meetings to report on progress.
Scrum is an iterative method which is perfect for our complex robotics project that involves a high level of productivity and require intensive refining of the modules.
Benefits of the ProjectReplace human interaction for complete automation
Automation allows you to decrease cycle times and cost-per-piece while improving quality. This allows you to better compete on a global scale. A robot has the ability to work at a constant speed, unattended, 24/7. That means you’ve got the potential to produce more. New products can be more quickly introduced into the production process and new product programming can be done offline with no disruption to existing processes.
Human error percentage reduced to zero
A recent study found that 23 percent of all unplanned downtime in manufacturing is the result of human error, compared with rates as low as 9 percent in other sectors. We intend to reduce this anomaly to a minimum.
Less time consumption therefore significantly improving the efficiency of the system
Time is money and in the manufacturing industry, every second on the assembly line counts. We are proposing to replace humans with a high-speed robotic arm as robotic arms are faster, more precise than humans, and make zero human errors.
Reduced human interaction so that their skills can be utilized in other productive tasks
Our motivation for this robotic arm is not to take away the jobs of people, rather we intend to let the robots perform these repetitive tasks so that people can focus their time and energy on other productive tasks
Technical Details of Final DeliverableROS or Robot Operating System is robotics middleware (i.e. a collection of software frameworks for robot software development). Although ROS is not an operating system, it provides services designed for a heterogeneous computer cluster such as hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management and is relatively a new dimension in the domain of robotics. The idea of the project is to develop an Autonomous assembly line Robotic Arm using ROS that can successfully perform object positional manipulation of bottles rapidly, utilizing object recognition and 3d point-cloud mapping for object avoidance.
Final Deliverable of the Project HW/SW integrated systemCore Industry ManufacturingOther Industries Others Core Technology RoboticsOther Technologies OthersSustainable Development Goals Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureRequired Resources| Item Name | Type | No. of Units | Per Unit Cost (in Rs) | Total (in Rs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total in (Rs) | 80000 | |||
| Servo motors | Equipment | 6 | 9000 | 54000 |
| Laser Light Module - 0KY08 | Equipment | 1 | 200 | 200 |
| Laser Receiver Detector module for Arduino | Equipment | 1 | 700 | 700 |
| Xlr8 FPGA board kit | Equipment | 1 | 15100 | 15100 |
| Industrial visits | Miscellaneous | 1 | 5000 | 5000 |
| Printing | Miscellaneous | 1 | 3000 | 3000 |
| Stationery | Miscellaneous | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |