Raspberry-Pi-based Pick and Place Robotic Arm for the Chemical Industry

摘要

Nowadays, chemicals play a vital role in our day-to-day lives. We use many chemicals for various kinds of usages, such as bleaching, dyeing, food preservation, and so on. Many industries have also been established in our country for the manufacturing of chemicals. In chemical industries, there are two kinds of chemicals prepared. One is hazardous chemicals, and the other is non-hazardous chemicals. Non-hazardous chemicals are not that harmful to humans, and they can be easily handled by themselves. However hazardous chemicals, which are very harmful to humans, cannot be handled easily. For that purpose, every chemical industry requires separate machines to handle hazardous chemicals. This requirement can be easily resolved by the proposed system, "Raspberry-Pi-Based Pick and Place Robotic Arm for Chemical Industry," which is based on "Robotics Technology." This system is designed with the aid of robotics to handle the most dangerous chemicals in the chemical industries. The robotic arm used in the proposed system works with the help of "Raspberry Pi," which is a single-board computer. Here, Raspberry Pi controls the robotic arm based on the programming given by the user end. The working instructions are predefined by the user, and they can be inserted with the help of the Python programming language on the Raspberry Pi. According to the programming, the instructions are instructed by the user, and the robotic arm performs various tasks such as handling chemicals from one place to another, transferring chemical containers from one block to another block, and so on. The handling of chemicals can be done with a rotation of 360 degrees. These real-time tasks done by the robotic arm are transferred to the end user with the help of Raspberry Pi. It enables wireless communication, and this can be possible with the involvement of another tech, that's the "Internet of Things." All these real-time tasks are transferred to the IoT cloud, and it can be accessed from any time, anywhere.