Design of automatic fuel filling system using a mechatronics approach

Abstract

With the rapid growth of life, usage of automobile is increasing day by day, leading to an increase of fuel filling stations. In the present scenario, these filling stations are totally manually operated which consumes time & requires man power. Wherein sparsely populated areas, the labour cost is more, due to less population density. Due to less availability of labour, and climatic conditions some of these filling stations wouldn’t be open for 24*7. Keeping these factors in mind, a mechatronics approach is made to design an automatic fuel filling system, which would be cost effective, open 24*7, minimum labour required and optimum time taken to fill fuel. The car has to be parked in a specific region, wherein using image processing a close loop system will be generated which guides the robotic arm to align itself to the fuel tank. Once the arm has aligned itself, the consumer has to enter the amount for the quantity of petrol to be filled in the car by swiping his card in the machine. The pump gets actuated and the tank starts getting filled with fuel. Once the entered volume of fuel had been filled in the car, the pump stops the supply of fuel and the arm returns to its initial position. Using this approach even the owner could monitor the pump online from any corner of the world and also overcome the idea of petrol theft.