Design and Realization of an Automated Drug Distribution System Based on Arduino

EasyChair Preprint no. 7404

Abstract

This paper presents the design and the realization of an automated drug dispensing prototype system, of 16 types, this system was inspired by the French automaton 'ApotéKa' which uses the Free Fall flow-rack AS/RS (FF-flow-rack AS / RS). The system realized is based on servomotors to provoke the free fall of the drugs towards a conveyor that transport them. Servomotors are piloted by a PCA968 module which is controlled by Arduino Mega2560 through PC, the presence or absence of the boxes in the bins is detected by an infrared obstacle sensor.

Keyphrases: Arduino, controlled, drug dispensing, Flow-rack AS/RS, free fall, Servomotors

@Booklet{EasyChair:7404,
  author = {Sarra Bouzidi and Asmaa Tabti and Khalid Hachemi},
  title = {Design and Realization of an Automated Drug Distribution System Based on Arduino},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 7404},

  year = {EasyChair, 2022}}