DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF GANTRY ROBOT FOR OBJECT VALIDATION OF PALLETS

The Project presents the design and implementation of a gantry robot, which performs pick and place mechanism. Picking and placing manually is the inefficient flaws for the production line industries. It became less productive, slow and non-flexible processing when it comes to manual mechanism. To overcome this problem, a 3 axis rectangular plane gantry robot has been designed. This is a Cartesian coordinate robot, which performs pick and place mechanism and also detects the obstacles which encounters in its path. The system comprises of gantry robot with a conveyor system, and completely controlled by programmable logical controller. This provides the effective design of the system. The most important requirement to take into account were those regarding accuracy, weigh of the object, metal and non-metal detection, obstacle detection and overall cost of the system.