Automatic Material Handling and Sorting of Defective Gear Using Image Processing

Gear is a widely used mechanical component whose primary use is to transmit power from one shaft to other. Gears are of many types namely spur gear, helical gears, worm gears etc. Gear drives are used in various kinds of machines like automobiles, metal cutting tools, material handling equipment's, rolling mills, marine power plants etc. MATLAB is extensively used for scientific & research purposes. It is accurate & also has a number of built in functions which makes it versatile. Gear Measurement has been carried out by focusing two features of gear image object. The problems are to measure the gear features of gear image object, in the sense the measurement of the area of the gear image object and as well the teeth of the gear will be counted. MATLAB tool is used to develop a code which overcomes these problems and measures the area as well as teeth of the gear image object counted.