ENG8605 - MECHATRONICS

Assignment - 1

Note: Randomly selected stations will be verified, graded and their mark will
be considered for the assignment.
Due date: Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2021, at 11.59 pm on Brightspace

1. Visit the T221 room, identify and prepare the list of mechatronics systems used by the
following six stations. Analyze its elements and state its importance in the functioning of
that system.

Example:
Station: Distributing / Conveyor Station
No. Sensors Type Features
1. Thru’ beam sensor (Transmitter Digital - to check the workpiece at the
and reflector) magazine
2.

Actuators Type Features

1. Electro-mechanical D.C. gear motor - - to run the conveyor in both
brush type directions
2. Pneumatic
 2. Write the sequence of operation for the following 6 stations with the initial position. (Do
not copy the sequence from the manual). Create the flow chart for the sequence.

Distributing / Conveyor Station

Thru’ beam sensor

(Transmitter and reflector)

Flow Chart For Sequence of operation

The Functioning starts when Start button pressed

Now this pneumtic operated Ejector Cylinder gets active

and it pushes a workpiece(part) out of the magazine.

Now when ejector cylinder piston has reaches its end

position and part is loaded onto the conveyor belt, the
converyor motor turns on.
 The conveyor motor takes the workpiece and transport
it to the end of the conveyor

The conveyor motor switches off when it is sensed

that the workpiece is present at the end of the
conveyor

Joining Station

When It is sensed that workpiece is present at the start of the conveyor module 1,
the conveyor motor switches ON. Now the workpiece is transported up to the
stopper

The diffused Sensor for upstream of the stopper when detects the workpiece, the
motor of conveyor module 1 gets Switched off
If the workpiece face Is opening dowside then Now if the Workpiece face is opening from
it is picked up at conveyor module 1 upside which is sensed by the diffused
sensor, cover of conveyor 2 is joined onto
workpiece
Once the "Housing" workpiece has reached
the end of conveyor module 1, the motor of
conveyor module 1 is switched off Now the deflector is extended onces the
Conveyor 2 is joint onto workpiece and the
stopper which has brought the workpiece is
retracted to its initial position

Now again the motor of conveyor module 1

gets activated and the workpiece is then
transported to the deflector side and motor
of conveyour module 1 is switched off when
the part has finally apporached the end

The Pick&Place which has pneumatic gripper

module joins it onto the workpiece and then
deflector is retracted

Now the motors of conveyor modules again

gets started and brings the workpiece to its
other end postion and then switches off
Sorting Station

When the workpiece gets onto the conveyor belt the motor is
turned on.

Now the separation of the colours is done through sensor as there

are three sensor for colour identification, Black, Metallic, red and
transparent colours are differentiated.

Now according to the colour different Chute are assigned.

There are three chutes in the sorting station

 So when the workpiece reaches its desired or assigned chute(1 out of
the 3) the stopper extends(stopper is enabled with a solenoid) and
then the workpiece is stopped right close to the chute

The Deflector is extended and the workpiece is sorted out onto the
chute also the stopper is retracted to its initial state.

According to the colour of the workpiece the workpiece is sorted

on the chute(1 of 3) and the the deflector is retracted with the
conveyor belt.

Conveyor motor turns off when the workpiece is sorted

This process repeats according to the workpiece colour and loading

off onto the starting conveyor of the sorting station

Measuring Station
When a workpiece is deteted through sensor, the conveyor belt motor switches on.
Now, The workpiece is transported to the stopper.

When the workpiece is detected by the diffuse sensor in front the stopper this conveyor
motor stops

Then workpiece is picked up by The Rotating-Lifting module that has a gripper and then
the workpiece is placed onto the measuring table.

The height of the workpiece is measured through level sensor.

 After the height measuerment, the Rotating-Lifting module picks up the workpiece again
and places it back onto the conveyor.

Now IF

Height of the workpiece is sensed as proper Height is not proper the saparator becomes active

The stopper retractes and the conveyor starts and

The stopper is retracted and the conveyor takes the workpiece towards the ejector. Now the
belt motor is switched on. The workpiece is workpiece is ejected onto the slide.
transported to the end of the conveyor belt

The conveyor belt motor is switched off, Once the workpiece has reached the end of the
when the workpiece has reached the end of slide conveyor belt motor is turned off.
the conveyor belt

Storage Station
A workpiece is fed via the chute, the detection module detects its color and a
diffuse sensor in the workpiece holding unit detects its presence.

The planar surface gantry and, if necessary, spindle axis travel to the pick
position at the holding unit.

The gripper grip closes when the gripper gets into right position to grip the
workpiece and then sensor will differentiate it according to its colour.

Depending on different colours like metallic, red or transparent the workpiece

is taken to its assigned place and the gripper’s grip opens to drop the
workpiece

Also the planar surface gantry and the spindle axis which have brought the
workpiece returns to their initial start position

Now For the removal form storage mode sequence

Firstly the user provides the workpiece colour that needs to be removed.
There are 5 inputs in I4(from 0 to 5) according to different color the number
is assigned

Clicking the Start button from the control panel enables the
working

The gantry along with the gripper goes to the section which
has that colour workpiece and the specified workpiece
gripped.

The gripper holds the workpiece and the granty and splindle
axis bring the workpiece to the output slide.

The gantry moves to the waiting position

Packaging Module

After loading the workpiece the startbutton is pressed and the conveyor motor
is runned till the workpiece reaches to the stopper

a box is prepared for loading when the workpiece reaches to the stopper

When the box is ready, the workpiece is gripped by the 2-axis handling module
and transported to the packaging module and it is loaded.

After loading is done, this box is closed and returned to the conveyor module

At last, the conveyor module transports the box to the end of the conveyor
belt and then to a downstream station.
 1. Visit the T221 room, identify and prepare the list of mechatronics systems used by the
following six stations. Analyze its elements and state its importance in the functioning of
that system.

Station: Distributing / Conveyor Station

No. Sensors Type Features
1. Thru’ beam sensor (Transmitter Digital - to check the workpiece at the
and reflector) magazine
2. Optical Promximity Switch Digital - It checks the workpiece are
present ustream
3. Proximity Sensor Digital - it scans position of ejector
cylinder
4. Inductive Proximity Switch Digital -It monitors end positions of
separator
Actuators Type Features
1. Electro-mechanical D.C. gear motor - - to run the conveyor in both
brush type directions
2. Pneumatic One way control -it is used to control the speed
valve of the ejector cylinder while
pushing and retracting
3. Pneumatic Double acting -It is used to push workpiece
cylinder at the bottom of the gravity-
fed magazine
4. Electromagnet Solenoid with -It is used to stop and separate
separator the workpiece

Station: Joining Station

No. Sensors Type Features
1. Distance Sensor Analog and Digital - to fufill the measurement
Signal requirements
2. Optical Proximity sensor Digital -To verify if workpiece is
present upstream and at the
end of the conveyor
3. Proximity Switch It detects whether gripper is
closed or not.
Actuators Type Features
 1. Electro-mechanical D.C. gear motor - - for driving and freely
brush type positioning the conveyor belt.
2. Electro-mechanical Solenoid with -Can be used to stop
separator and separate workpiece
3. Pneumatic Suction Cups Grip the workpiece
4. Pneumatic Pressure regulator To adjust the force in vertical
direction.
5. Pneumatic Vaccum generator To form grip in suction cup

Station: Measuring Stations

No. Sensors Type Features
1. Thru’ beam sensor (Transmitter Digital - to check the workpiece at the
and reflector) magazine
2. Optical proximity Sensor Digital - To check the presence
of workpiece, upstream
from the feed separator
and at the end of the
conveyor
3. Distance Sensor Digital and Analog - For measurements
Actuators Type Features
1. Electro-mechanical D.C. gear motor - - for diving rotating lifting
brush type module linearly
2. Electro-mechanical D.C. gear motor - - to run the conveyor belt of
brush type the conveyor module
3. Electro-mechanical Solenoid - Stop and separate the
workpiece from the
coneyor
4. Mechanical A parallel Gripper -To grip the workpiece

Station: Packaging Station

No. Sensors Type Features
1. Thru’ beam sensor (Transmitter Digital - to check the workpiece at the
and reflector) magazine
2. Proximity sensor Digital -to home the axis using a
switch control.
 3. Optical proximity sensor Digital - To check the presence of
workpiece, upstream from the
feed separator and at the end
of the conveyor
4. Proximity sensor Digital -for monitoring end position of
the magazine cylinder
Actuators Type Features
1. Electro-mechanical Stepper Motor - to cause 2-axis handle move
in X-direction(back and forth)
2. Pneumatic Pneumatic Drive -to casue motion in Z-direction
3. Pneumatic Pneumatic actuator -to stop the positioning in the
middle
4. Pneumatic Pneumatic Parallel Handle the workpiece and
Gripper boxes
5. Electromechanical Roller lever Used to limit the working
switches space.
6. Electromechanical D.C. gear motor - to run the conveyor belt of the
brush type conveyor module
7. Pnwumatic Double acting For packaging, folding of the
cylinders boxes

Station: Sorting Station

No. Sensors Type Features
1. Thru’ beam sensor (Transmitter Digital - to check the workpiece at the
and reflector) magazine
2. Inductive Proximity sensors Digital - To sense the metallic
workpiece
3. Diffuse Light sensor Digital - To sense the red and the
- metallic workpieces
4. Retro-reflective Sensor Digital - monitors the fill-levels of the
chutes.
Actuators Type Features
1. Electro-mechanical D.C. gear motor - - to run the conveyor in both
brush type directions
2. Electro-mechanical Solenoid Stop and separate the
workpiece from the coneyor
Station: Storage Station
No. Sensors Type Features
1. Thru’ beam sensor (Transmitter Digital - to check the rising edge of
and reflector) black, transparent and red
workpiece
2. Opto-electrical sensor Digital -monitors the end position of
the black workpieces in the
holder
3. Inductive proximity sensor Digital - to check the rising edge of
silver workpiece
4. Diffuse sensor Digital - to check the rising edge of
red workpiece
Actuators Type Features
1. Electro-mechanical D.C. gear motor - - to run the conveyor in both
brush type directions
2. Pneumatic Pneumatic Gripper - used to grip the
workpiece
3. Pneumatic -planar surface -used to grip the workpiece
gantry’s pneumatic
gripper