This project aims to design, simulate and prototype a Palletizing robotic arm which used to palletize bottles and kegs from the pallet to the conveyor and vice versa which will increase the production efficiency and prevent the workers from Cumulative Trauma Disorder (CTD).
Design of mechanical components (i.e., Arms of the robot, shafts, gears, bearings, hinges, caster, and Mecanum wheel, conveyors and other) parts of this project are made using Solidworks.
Unified Robot Description Format (URDF file) is generated from Solidworks mechanical model so that by using MATLAB and CoppeliaSim the direct kinematics, inverse kinematics, inverse dynamics and overall simulation of the system is done by integrating Matlab with CoppeliaSim. Using this results the appropriate servo motors are selected.
Arduino Uno is used as a microcontroller and android application is developed by using MIT App Inventor to teach the robot its trajectory and by saving the positions of the servos the robot will repeat its movement again and again. proteus software is used for electrical stimulation. Caster and Mecanum wheels are used to move the robot to any position when
needed. Finally, a fully functional protype is developed which shows the project’s feasibility.
Key Words: Palletizing robotic arm, URDF, Direct kinematic, Trajectory planning,
inverse dynamics.