Affiliations: [a] School of Mechanical and Automobile Engineering, Qingyuan Polytechnic, Qingyuan, Guandong, China | [b] School of Mechanical Electronic and Information Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, China
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Corresponding author: Huadong Zou, School of Mechanical and Automobile Engineering, Qingyuan Polytechnic, Qingyuan, Guandong, China. Tel.: +86 13819717316; E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: A large quantity of Steel Balls Automatic precise Counting device is introduced in this paper. Inductance sensors are used for ball detection and STC15F2K60S2 microprocessor is used to do the signal processing. When steel balls are sent to the PVC pipe at the same time, some balls will connect together because of the collision. The sensor will send a connected signal instead of multiple signals if it meets the connected balls. This could cause counting mistake of the device. A correction method is used to solve this problem. The device setup angle could be gotten by using dual sensors to get the average moving speed of the steel balls according to the fixed relations between the setup angle and the speed, which is not affected by whether the steel balls overlap or not because it used two voltage Jump edge to judge the start and end moment of timer. After that, the device setup angle is used to get the standard moving time to single sensor according to the known function relationship. The counting numbers are corrected by using the standard duration to compare with each recording low voltage duration passing single sensor. This method solves the counting mistake problem when a lot of steel balls are pushed into the PVC pipe together. The device improves the efficiency and accuracy of the ball counting.
