Andriod Controlled Pick and Place Arm with Line Follower Automaton

International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (IJTSRD)
Volume 3 Issue 5, August 2019 Available Online: www.ijtsrd.com e-ISSN: 2456 – 6470
@ IJTSRD | Unique Paper ID – IJTSRD26407 | Volume – 3 | Issue – 5 | July - August 2019 Page 565
Andriod Controlled Pick and Place
Arm with Line Follower Automaton
Lwin Lwin Htay, Nyan Phyo Aung, Mo Mo Myint Wai
Department of Electronic Engineering, Technological University, Mandalay, Myanmar
How to cite this paper: Lwin Lwin Htay |
Nyan Phyo Aung | Mo Mo Myint Wai
"Andriod Controlled Pick and Place Arm
with Line Follower Automaton"Published
in International
Journal of Trend in
Scientific Research
and Development
(ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-
6470, Volume-3 |
Issue-5, August
2019, pp.565-572,
https://doi.org/10.31142/ijtsrd26407
Copyright © 2019 by author(s) and
International Journalof Trendin Scientific
Research and Development Journal. This
is an Open Access article distributed
under the terms of
the Creative
CommonsAttribution
License (CC BY 4.0)
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by
/4.0)
ABSTRACT
Manufacturing automaton is widely used in small and medium plants,
however, automaton cooperating with otherdevicesisan importantaspectfor
achieving the fully autonomous system. ThispaperpresentsthePickand Place
Robot with Line Follower Function for manufacturing application. Model of
pick-and-place robot which will be functioned following a specific line may
benefit production to reduce the labor costor maybealternativesofthelabors.
This system has a line follower and pick and place function that is controlled
by Andriod with Arduino.
KEYWORDS: Andriod; Arduino; pick-and-place; Line
I. INTRODUCTION
Autonomous vehicle is machine that very important in the worldtoday. Human
sometimes cannot do some of works by their own. The created of the
autonomous vehicle help human to do these of the work. For example, work
that will waste human’s time and harm the human like transfer product, out of
space, underground work or many more. This vehicle is very sensitive and
everything in the vehicle must be perfect to dothetaskthatwewant.Nowadays
most of the delivery jobs such as deliver loads are problem to human in
industry because the heavy weight or repeat delivers always. At the same time,
it will reduce time and human power. It also will increase the efficiency of the
delivery job because human normally affected by pressure and problems.
However, sometimes an object blocks the pathway of the line followingvehicle.
It will make the vehicle cannot move. In order to make the
vehicle find the path. So, this pickup robot with line follower
vehicle will be alternative way to solve this problem.
Nowadays, Industries are becoming use with robot instead
of human worker because they can save time and money. As
the technology become bigger and bigger. We would like to
produce a new development namelyPickand PlaceArmwith
line follower Automaton
Line follower Robot is a machine which follows a line,
either a black line or white line. Basically, there are two
types of line follower robots: one is black linefollower which
follows black line and second is white line follower which
follows white line. Line follower actually senses the line and
run over it.
The pick-and-place robot arm is controlledbyandroid based
system using Bluetooth that detects the object, picks that
object from source location and places at the desired
location.
Line follower robot with pick and place capabilities are
commonly used in manufacturing plants. These moves on a
specific path to pick the components from specific locations
and place them on desiredlocations.Basically, alinefollower
robot is a self-operating robot that detects and follow a line
drawn on the floor. The path to be taken is indicated by a
white line on the black surface. The control system used
must sense the line by the IR sensor. The aim of the work is
to provide the industrial robot.
Arduino UNO is the main controller in the work. The data
from the sensors (IR Sensors) will be given to Arduino andit
gives corresponding signals to the Motor Driver IC. The
robotic arm is pick up the obstacle and can move 180 degree
by the servo motor and the servo motor is control by the
Bluetooth smart phone. The robotic arm is control by the
Arduino.
II. BACKGROUND THEORY
A. Line Follower Vehicle
Creating autonomous mobile robots is the first step toward
the creation of artificial intelligence robots such as the ones
from science to fiction. Robots are like animals, require
continuous input to correctly and dynamically understand
what they are doing and what they should do next. It is same
to line follower vehicle that must avoid the barrier and find
their own pathway to deliver the items. Autonomous
vehicles have been designed and implemented to perform a
wide variety of tasks, from delivering medical sample in a
hospital to sweep and to clear unexploded ordnance from a
mine-field. One way to simplify this is to define a task based
on a simple environmental stimulus, in this project a black
line surrounded by white paper. The primary goal is to
create sensors and logic hardware to control a line follower
vehicle to follow a black line and stop on a field of black. The
line follower vehicle also avoids the barriers that are not
white color.
A new approach on to differentiate between human and
other obstacle and accidental situation send location. The
IJTSRD26407

International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (IJTSRD) @ www.ijtsrd.com eISSN: 2456-6470
passive Infrared sensor is mainly used to detect human or
animal. Arduino UNO is used in this project. [1]
Designed a line follower robot to be able to follow a black
line on the ground without getting off the line too much. The
robot has two sensors installed underneath the front part of
the body, and two DC motors drive wheels moving forward.
A circuit inside takes the input signal from two sensors and
controls the speed of wheels’ rotation. [2]
B. A Remote Controlled “Pick and Place”
A remote controlled Robotic Vehicle has been completed. A
prototype was built and confirmed functional. This system
would make it easier for man to unrivalled the risk of
handling suspicious objects which could be hazardous in its
present environment and workplace. Complex and
complicated duties would be achieved faster and more
accurately. [3]
Robots have their historical past though they came into
existences only in 1961 when Unimation Inc, a company
founded in 1956 by American engineer Joseph Engelberger
introduced the first servo-controlled industrialrobots. Early
development dating back to 500B.C shows that the
Egyptians, Indians, the Chinese, and the Romans built many
automatics puppets which imitate the movement of animals
and birds. The Chinese built many amusing devices that
depicted sequential motions. Also, the early men discovered
many mechanisms and exhibited their innovation skill in
building ships and introduced looms to weave. [4]
The planet corporation in 1959 introduced a pick and place
robot. In 1961, the first industrial robotwascommercialized
by Unimation Inc. Microprocessor technology was brought
by INTEL in 1961. The real robot development process
continued between 1968 and 1982 when various models of
robots were developed by leading robot scientists in
different universities, national laboratories and different
industrial houses in the USA, Japan, France, UK, and other
European countries.
C. Self Sufficient Robotic Arm
A self-sufficient robotic arm is fabricated by using
components like micro-controllers and motors. This
increases their speed of operation and reduces the
complexity. It also brings about an increase in productivity
which makes it easy to shift to hazardous materials. In the
implementation process, the necessary components of
structure ICs, blocks and power supply are all assembled on
the PCB. The Robotic Arm is designed using the
Microcontroller i.e. ATMEGA8 Micro-controller using
Arduino programming. This process works on the principle
of interfacing servos, Bluetooth module and mobile
application. This task is achieved by using Arduino board.
Bluetooth play an important role. The remote is fitted with
mobile application and the servos areattachedtothebodyof
the robotic arm. The Bluetooth module is used for
transparent wireless serial connection setup. Serial port
Bluetooth module is fully qualified Bluetooth V2.0+EDR
(Enhanced Data Rate) 3Mbps Modulation with complete
2.4GHz radio transceiver and baseband.ItusesCSRBluecore
04-External single chip Bluetooth system with CMOS
technology and with AFH (Adaptive Frequency Hopping
Feature). The Bluetooth modulehastobeconnectedwiththe
Arduino physically by the Rx and Tx pins in both chips. Butit
does not matter whether the Bluetooth modulepininTxand
Rx must connect the Arduino pin Tx and Rx. It can also
connect the PWN (Pulse width modulation) pin in Arduino.
This Bluetooth module also must be connected with the
mobile phone that has the Android application and in this
case the application will send data through the Bluetooth to
the Arduino. Hence the servo is controlled with Bluetooth
android application [5].
At present, the main interest is to protect nuclear workers in
highly contaminated areas or hostile environments, robots
can be used in nuclear power plants to reduce human
exposure not only to radiation, but also to hot, humid and
oxygen-deficient atmosphere researchers in the field of
robotics are proposing a great variety of robot
configurations and functional capabilities to be used in
nuclear power plants. Wheeled robots and tracked vehicles
are the common configurations for mobile robots. [6].
The robotic arm was designed with four degrees of freedom
and programmed to accomplish accurately simple light
material lifting task to assist in the production line in any
industry. 3D printing method is used in this project to
fabricate the components of the robotic arm. Therefore, it
provided more precise dimensions and huge time and cost-
saving in fabrication. The robotic arm is equipped with 4
servo motors to link the parts and bring arm movement.
Arduino, an open-sourcecomputer hardwareand softwareis
applied to control the robotic armbydrivingservomotors to
be capable to modify the position. [7].
The performance of the micro-robotic system has the
potential to have an important role in such applicationswith
reference to the transportation, handling and storage of
micro objects. For that, has developed an automated system
consisting of multiple drilling micro-robots. [8]
III. THE PROPOSED SYSTEM
The proposed system is as shown in figure 1. In this system,
the robot has line following and Pick-up functions to provide
automation. The one controller is used to control these
functions. Power is supplied by 7.4 dc source to parts. Left
and right dc motor of robot is driven by UNO using motor
driver. Ir sensors is used to guide the directions of robot by
line. Pick and Place arm is controlled by two servo motors
that is control form phone via Bluetooth module with UNO.
IV. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM
There are two functions in the proposed system. The line follower and pick-place armfunctionsmustbeconcerned. In general,
there is two portions: hardware and software. The hardware portion must be solve two functions. The software portion can
also solve these two functions.
The main Arduino UNO controller is used to control two functions in hardware portions. From the block diagram of the
proposed system, the overall circuit diagram of the system can be drawn. The overall of the system is as shown in figure 2.

IR sensors
Arduino
UNO
Motor
Driver
DC Motors
(Left&Right)
Bluetooth
Module
Servo
Motors
7.4V
Battery
For line follower
For Pickup
Figure1. the Block Diagram of Andriod Controlled Pick and Place Arm with Line Follower Automaton
TOREST AREF
REST GND
3.3V 13
5V 12
GND ~11
GND ~10
Vin ~ 9
A1 8
A2 7
A3 ~6
A4 ~ 5
A5 4
~3
2
Rx1
Tx 0
Motor Driver
12V GND 5V IN1 IN2 IN3 IN4
Gear Motor Gear Motor
ServoMotor
Out5VGND
ServoMotor
OUT5VGND
ServoMotor
OUT5VGND
ServoMotor
OUT5VGND
7.4V
battery
GND + OUT EN
IR Sensor
GND + OUT EN
IR Sensor
Bluetooth
moduleHC-06
RxTxGNDVcc
Power
supply
Figure2. The Overall Circuit Diagram of the Proposed System
A. Arduino
In the hardware portion, the main controller unitisArduino.
It is an open source microcontroller which can be easily
programmed, erased and reprogrammed at any instant of
time. Based on simple microcontroller boards, it is an open
source computing platform that is used for constructingand
programming electronic devices. It is also capable of acting
as a mini computer just like other microcontrollers bytaking
inputs and controlling the outputs for avarietyofelectronics
devices. It is also capable of receiving and sending
information over the internet with the help of various
Arduino shields, which are discussed in this paper. Arduino
uses a hardware known as the Arduino development board
and software for developing the code known as the Arduino
IDE (Integrated Development Environment). Built up with
the 8-bit Atmel AVR microcontroller's thataremanufactured
by Atmel or a 32-bit Atmel ARM, these microcontrollers can
be programmed easily using the C or C++ language in the
Arduino IDE.[9]
Figure3 Arduino Uno Board
B. IR Obstacle Avoidance Sensor Module
An Obstacle Avoidance Sensor (as shown below) uses
infrared reflection principle to detect obstacles. When there

is no object in front, infrared-receivercannotreceivesignals;
when there is an object in front, it will block and reflect
infrared light, then infrared-receiver can receive signals. An
obstacle avoidance sensor mainly consists of an infrared-
transmitter, an infrared-receiver and a potentiometer.
According to the reflecting character of an object, if there is
no obstacle, emitted infrared ray will weaken with the
propagation distance and finally disappear. If there is an
obstacle, when infrared ray encounters an obstacle,itwill be
reflected back to the infrared-receiver. Then the infrared-
receiver detects this signal and confirmsanobstacleexistsin
front.The infrared sensor has two LEDs, IRTransmitters and
IR receivers also called photo diodes. They are used for
sending and receiving light.IR sensor has 4 pins; Gnd, Vcc,
Vout, En. It operates at 5V DC. The figure 4 showthephoto of
IR sensor module. The line function can be worked with
these ir sensor. In this system the two ir sensor module is
used to guide the movement of robot that is followedbyline.
Figure4. IR Obstacle Avoidance Sensor Module
C. DC Motor
A DC motor is any of a class of electrical machines that
converts direct current electrical power into mechanical
power. It is working between 3V to 12V. The figure 5 shows
the photo of DC motor that used in the system. The motors
are used to move the robot. And they are driven by Uno with
L298 Diver module. The part number of the motor is OL-
MOTOR-TT .
Figure5 DC motor with wheel
D. Motor Drive Module
Arduino Uno can’t drive the dc motor directly. The current
and voltage levels are not match with controller and dc
motors. So motor driver is needed todrivethemotorbyUno.
The Uno generate only the pulse to drive the motor via
driver. The major motor drive components for DC motors
are: a controller, a motor driver IC or a motor driver circuit,
the desired DC motor being used, power supply unit and the
necessary connections to the motor. There is circuit that
completer function of the driver for dc motor. That is called
L298 motor drive module. In this system, there is oneL2958
module is used. The photo of L298 module is as shown in
figure 6. Motor Driver is a H-Bridge which can rotate motor
in both clockwise and anti-clockwise direction. L293D is a
typical example of motor driver. It has dual H-Bridgemeans,
can drive two motors at once and it can provide maximum
600 mA current to each channel. So, theL293Dmotor isused
for line follower robot.
Figure6. L298 Driver Module
E. Servo Motor
The servo motor can rotate 180 degree and can use as
moveable joint. The servo motor is usually a simple DC
motor controlled for specific angular rotation with the help
of additional servomechanism (a typical closed-loop
feedback control system). Now day’s servo system has large
industrial applications. Servo motor application are also
commonly seen in remote-controlled toycarsforcontrolling
the direction of motion, and it is also very widely used as the
motor which moves the tray of a CD or DVD player.Themain
reason behind using a servo is that it provides angular
precision, i.e. it will only rotate as much we want and then
stop and wait for next signal to take further action. Theservo
motor is unlike a standard electric motor which starts
turning as when we apply power to it, and the rotation
continues until we switch off the power. It cannot be
controlled the rotational progress of electrical motor,butwe
can only control the speed of rotation and can turn it ON and
OFF. In this system, there is pick and place arm. The
movement of these arm is controlled by two servo motor.
And the gripper function of the arm is also controlled by the
servo motor. These servo motordoesnotrequired thedriver
module. Because these are small and compatible with
Arduino 5v voltage level. So Arduino generate the PWM
pluses to drive these servo. The figure 7 shows the
servomotor that used in this system. The arm have is driven
by four servomotors: base, shoulder, elbow, wrist and has a
gripper as end-effectors. The gripper has fingers grasping
and manipulation of objects.
Figure7. The Servo Motor
F. Power Supply
The system must be required the DC power. In this system
has two functions that are line follower and arm. The
minimum required voltage is 7 V DC. The requirements can
be solved by using two rechargeable 3.7V Li-ion (18650)
battery. This battery can be produced about 7.4 v @2A. So it
can be solve the power requirement of thesystem. An18650
battery is a cell that’s 18mm x 65mm in size. The name,
18650, refers exclusively to the size of the lithium-ion
battery cell, but there can be minorvariationseven here.The
18650 has become the new gold standard for replaceable
and rechargeable batteries. The 18650 is a type of
rechargeable lithium-ion battery.Lithium-ion batterieshave
revolutionized portable devices. They’re in everything, from
our smartphones and cameras to baby monitors, fitness
gadgets, and flashlights.

Rechargeable batteries provide clean and reliable power.
Figure 8 show the photo of rechargeable 3.7V Li-ion battery.
Figure8. Rechargeable 3.7V Li-Ion Battery
G. Bluetooth Module
Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard for exchanging
data over short distance. It is a standard wire-replacement
communication protocol primary designed for low-power
consumption, with a short range based on low-cost
transceiver microchips in each device. Because the devices
are use a radio (broadcast) communication system, they do
not have to be in visual line of sight of each other, and
however a quasi-optical wireless path must be viable. There
are two types of Bluetooth module. HC-05 Bluetoothmodule
and HC-06 module.
HC-05 Bluetooth Module is an easy to use Bluetooth SPP
(Serial Port Protocol) module, designed for transparent
wireless serial connection setup. Its communication is via
serial communication which makes an easy way to interface
with controller or PC. HC-05 Bluetooth module provides
switching mode between master and slave mode which
means it able to use neither receiving nor transmitting data.
Figure 10 shows the diagram of HC-05 Bluetooth module.
Figure 10 HC-05 Bluetooth Module
The Bluetooth module is used to control the servo motors of the pick and place and gripper of arm. Pick and place arm can be
controlled by mobile phone because these module is used in the system.
Another portion of the system is implementation of the system. The software must develop for two functions. Figure 11 show
the flow chart of line follower function of robot. The IR sensor transmit and receive light and send the data signal to the
Arduino. The Arduino receiving data is send to the motor driver and the motor turn on. If sensor 1(left One) is in black and
sensor 2(right one) is in white the robot car will turn left and the left motor will turn off. If sensor 1(left One) is in white and
sensor 2(right one) is in black the robot car will turn right and the right motor will turn off. If both sensors; sensor 1(left One)
and sensor 2(right one) are in black both left and right motors stop.
Does only left sensor see
black?
Does only right sensor see
black?
Do both sensor see black?
Turn left
(left motor off)
Turn right
(Right motor off)
Both left & right
motor stop
No
No
No
YES
YES
YES
Both left & Right
motor go forward
Start
Figure11. Flow Chart Of Line Follower Function Of Robot
The function of pick and place arm is controlled by mobile phone via Bluetooth. these function of the flow chart is as shown in
figure 12.
Arduino receives data through the Bluetooth via serial communication. The Arduino check the data if arrive or not from the
mobile phone with the instruction ‘if (Serial. Available ( ))’. If the conduction is true, the data is stored and the robot car is
controlled as the input command numbers.

The number ‘1’ is used for the base servo rotate. The number ‘2’ is used for shoulder servo rotate. The number ‘3’ is used for
wrist servo rotate and the number ‘4’ is used for the gripper servo rotate. If none of these servos is not rotate check the serial.
Read and reconnect.
State= serial .read
State = “1”
State = “2”
State = “3”
State = “4”
Variable Declation
No
YES
No
No
No
YES
YES
YES
YES
Reconnect
Base servo
rotate
Shoulder servo
rotate
Wrist servo
rotate
Gripper servo
rotate
No
Start
Serial Available ( );
Figure12. The Function of Pick and Pace Arm Of The System
V. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND CONCLUSION
After implementation of software and hardware
implementation, the system is tested in real environment.
The figure 13 shows the complete model of the system. The
construction is complete, the step by step testing is started
when the system is completed.
The line follower function of the system is a mobile machine
that can detect and follow the line drawn on the floor.
Generally, the path is predefined and can be either visible
like a black line on a white surface with a high contrasted
color or it can be invisible like a magnetic field. Definitely,
this kind of robot should sense the line with its infrared ray
(IR) sensors that installed under the robot. After that, the
data is transmitted to the processor by specific transition
buses. Hence, the processor is going to decide the proper
commends and then it sends them to the driver and thus the
path will be followed by the line follower robot.
By detecting the IR radiation the line follower robot can
be moved to left and right. In line follower two IR sensors
are used for the process namely left sensor and right sensor.
Line follower function of robot will follow the black line that
is when the left sensor fall on the black surface the right
motor will drive and when the right sensor fall on the black
surface the left motor will drive. Moreover when the left
sensor and right sensor fall on the black surface on the same
time both the left and right motors will stop. The test and
result for the line follower function of the robot is as shown
figures 14 and 15.
Figure13. The Complete Model of The System

Figure14. Test And Result of Two IR Sensor Fall On White
Surface
Figure15. Test and Result of Two IR Sensor Fall On Black
Surface
The pick and place arm is built with four servo motors; base
servo, shoulder servo, wrist servo and gripper servo. The
output base servo is connected to the Arduino digital pin 3,
the output shoulder servo is connectedtoArduinodigitalpin
5, the output wrist servo is connected to Arduino digital pin
6 and the gripper servo is connected to Arduino digitalpin9.
These four servo motors are controlled by the Bluetooth
module with Bluetooth smart phone. The Bluetooth module
Tx and Rx pin is connected to the Arduino digital pin 10 and
11.
The pick and place arm can move 180 degree by the servo
motor and the servo motors are controlled by smart phone
via Bluetooth. The control signal is sensed by Uno via
Bluetooth. So the arm can be pick and place with movement.
By using robotic arm, small object can pick and place from
one place to desire location. Test and resultofthefunction of
pick and place arm is as shown in figure. And the android
command view of the pick and place function of system is as
shown in figure 16 and 17. In figure 17, there four color
which represent the four servo motors of the arm.
Figure16. Test of the pick and place arm of the system
Figure17. Andriod application of the arm command
VI. CONCLUSION
This work has been described the prototypemodeldesign of
Android Controlled Pick and Place Arm with Line Follower
Automaton . The system mainly focus on the industrial
application. In manufacturing plant, the robot must be
moved by path that can detect and follow the line drawn on
the floor. Generally, the path is predefined and can be either
visible like a black line on a white surface with a high
contrasted color or it can be invisible like a magnetic field. .
And a robotic arm is implemented using Arduino and
Andriod to pick and place objects more safely without
incurring much damage. Theroboticarmusedherecontain a
soft catching gripper which safely handle the object.
Acknowledgment (Heading 5)
This work is done with my candidate, Mg KyawMyoTunand
Ma Shan Ei Su. The authors would like to thank other
member of this publication.

Reference
[1] Khaled and Samial, “Proposed A New Approach On To
Differentiate Between Human And Other ObstacleAnd
Accidental Situation Send Location,”2013.
[2] Jaseung Ku, “The Theory of Line Flower Robot,” 2005.
[3] B. O. Omijeh, “A Remote Controlled “Pick And Place”
Robotic Vehicle,” International Journal of Engineering
research And development, Vol. 10, No. 5,
2014.www.ijerd.com
[4] Engelberger, “introduce the first servo control
industrial robot, ”1961.
[5] A. N. W. Q, K. L. Voon, M. A. Ismail, N. Mustaffa, M. H.
Ismail, “Design and Development of a Mechanism of
Robotic Arm for Lifting,” 2nd IntegratedDesignProject
Conference (IDPC), 2015.
[6] Goldy Katal, Saahil Gupta, Shitij Kakkar, “Design And
Operation of Synchronized Robotic Arm,” IJRET:
International Journal of Research in Engineering and
Technology E-ISSN: 2319-1163 | P-ISSN: 2321-7308.
[7] Matt Blackmore, Jacob Furniss and Shaun Ochsner, “5
DOF Robotic Arm”, ECE 478/578 Embedded Robotics,
Fall 2009
[8] Sajid Ghuffar, Javaid Iqbal, Usman Mehmood And
Muhammad Zubair, “Design and Fabrication of a
Programmable 5-DOF Autonomous Robotic Arm,” 6th
WSEAS Int. Conf. on Systems Theory & Scientific
Computation, Elounda, Greece, August 21-23, 2006
[9] Nyan Phyo Aung, Mo Mo Myint Wai, Lwin Lwin Htay
and Kyawt Kyawt San, “Web Server Based Solar
Parameters Monitoring using Arduino,” International
Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and
Development (IJTSRD), Vol 3, No. 5, 2019.pp296

Andriod Controlled Pick and Place Arm with Line Follower Automaton

More Related Content

What's hot (19)

Similar to Andriod Controlled Pick and Place Arm with Line Follower Automaton (20)

More from ijtsrd (20)

Recently uploaded (20)

Andriod Controlled Pick and Place Arm with Line Follower Automaton