Design and Fabrication of a Line Following Wheeled Forklift

In this project, an automatic wheeled fork lifter robot is designed and fabricated. The robot is designed to transfer load from one specific place to another place using the line following technique. This when done by a human, requires more effort and is less efficient. Human effort has been replace

Project Title

Design and Fabrication of a Line Following Wheeled Forklift

Project Area of Specialization

Mechatronics Engineering

Project Summary

In this project, an automatic wheeled fork lifter robot is designed and fabricated. The robot is designed to transfer load from one specific place to another place using the line following technique. This when done by a human, requires more effort and is less efficient. Human effort has been replaced with a line follower fork lifter robot that lifts the load. This line following robot uses the tapes for the guided path. It has several advantages such as labor cost reduction, improved traceability and inventory accuracy, safety, etc. The robot is controlled This is very useful in industries, hospitals, automobile companies, etc.

Project Objectives

• Design of a Line Following Wheeled Forklifter. 

1. Mechanical Design by using Creo Software.
2. Electrical Design by using Proteus & MPLAB Softwares.

• Fabrication of Line Following Wheeled Forklifter by using different tools and manufacturing process.                                                  
• To test drive the Line Following Wheeled Forklifter.    

Project Implementation Method

• Mechanical Design

1. Structural design of the Base and Lift system of Forklifter using Creo software by using standard dimensions.

• Electrical Design

1. Design the circuitry which involves sensors, microcontroller, and actuators by using Proteus software.
2. Develop the C++ Code for a microcontroller to perform desired operations by using MPLAB software.

• Manufacturing

1. Fabricate the base, lift system & PCB and install the required motors, sensors, and microcontroller.

Benefits of the Project

• Forklifters are used in every industry for purpose of pick and place of their products but they all are manually controlled forklifters. Manually Controlled Forklifter needs an experienced Driver and is:

1.Costly

2.Non Accurate

3.Time Consuming

4.Unsafe

• To overcome these problems we are designing an Automatic Line Following Wheeled Forklifter.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

The final product will consist of the following technical properties:

1. It is a driverless automatic fork lifter with a wheeled robot and a fork type weight lifter.
2. All mechanisms are controlled by a microcontroller.
3. It has a differential drive mechanism and an IR sensor follows the line and controls the motor's speed & Direction.
4. A Stepper motor is used to lift the load because it permits a precise positioning without a closed-loop control and has a high holding torque to maintain the forklifted.
5. Automatically detect the different products using Color Sensor and pick or lift that one which has been assigned by the user.
6. Place that product in a storage room through follow the line.

Final Deliverable of the Project

Hardware System

Core Industry

Manufacturing

Other Industries

Others

Core Technology

Robotics

Other Technologies

Others

Sustainable Development Goals

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Required Resources

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