As electricity prices continue to rise, the increasing need for energy management requires better understanding of models for energy-consuming applications, such as conveyor belts. Conveyor belts are used in a wide range of industries, including power generation, mining and mineral processing. Conveyor technological advances are leading to increasingly long conveyor belts being commissioned. Th...

Robot conveyor tracking is a task in which a robot follows and obtains objects on a conveyor belt. Prior to obtaining an object from an automation line, a robot needs information about the object, such as its position, orientation, velocity, size, etc. Compared to ultrasonic sensors and infrared ray sensors, vision sensors can provide more information about the object on the conveyor belts. Gen...

This paper presents the conveyor, an interconnection device which operates on a 3D skewed memory space and provides the capability of parallel volumetric transformation. The special concept of the conveyor, its design and implementation are discussed.

Novel CMOS realizations of the second and the third generation current conveyors based on the use of the current conveyor of the first generation are given. The simulations show that these circuits have an excellent performance and an exceptional bandwidth. q 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Current conveyors; CMOS realizations 1. Introduction Since its conception, the ...

This study proposes a novel square/triangular wave generator based on a dual outputs differential voltage current conveyor (DO-DVCC). The proposed circuit uses one DO-DVCC combined with three grounded passive components. The presented scheme reveals a compact topology and can produce square/triangular waveform simultaneously. To verify their feasibility, commercially available ICs were used for...

Sorting is an important thing in which any items or products can be differentiated based on their size, height and color. In order to sort items, we need to be able to compare them, i.e., to determine whether the object coming through the conveyor is smaller, greater, or equal to the respected height. Here we are going to do a simple object sorting system using the Programmable Logic Controller...

In this paper, a solution is presented for a robotic manipulation problem in industrial settings. The problem is sensing objects on a conveyor belt, identifying the target, planning and tracking an interception trajectory between end effector and the target. Such a problem could be formulated as combining object recognition, tracking and interception. For this purpose, we integrated a vision sy...

Conveyor based assembly production lines were first introduced by Ford H. in the 19th Century, in a need for responding to the increasing market capacity then. Today, many challenges are imposed by conveyor lines including unbalanced station workloads, line inflexibility in coping with changes in demand. This paper describes the implementation of discrete event simulation in the improvement of ...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a flexible parts feeding system. While flexibility encompasses every part of the workcell design, including hardware and control software, the ability to feed parts in a wide variety of sizes and shapes is crucial. Conventional feeding methods, such as vibratory bowl feeders, are not practical for flexible workcells because of their speciali...

In this brief, it is shown that two of the recently reported voltage mode and current mode current conveyor-based all-pass circuits can be generated from the well known single input op amp all-pass configuration. It is also found that two other voltage mode current conveyor-based all-pass circuits are related directly to the differential input op amp all-pass structure. Several new grounded cap...