Color Sensor

(DRAFT)

Sensors & Actuators Assignments TF 3202

Written by : Rizky Inayati 13309070 M. Irham Hudaya 13309090

Department of Engineering Physics Faculty of Industrial Technology Institut Teknologi Bandung

1. The Idea There are lots of colors in this world. Imagine that we can sort things by its color, a lot of things will be easier to do; manufacturing products with color-specific, identifying colors for the color-blinds, measurements, etc. Since the applications are really wideused, theres no doubt why people do researches about color sensor. Nowadays, a lot of color sensors have been made and used for many kinds of application. The sensors are different, depending on the use of it. In this paper, wed like to design a simple sensor that can detect RGB color specifically using RGB LED. The idea is very simple; we use RGB LED to emit bright light, and then when theres a surface of colored-thing near the light, we can detect the color of the thing by the reflected light and use a microcontroller to make the indication.

2. Components In this module of sensor, were going to need several main components: RGB LED Photoresistor (the resistance varies in the change of the light accepted) Microcontroller Indicator LED

Figure 2.1 Main Components

The components of this module dont cost much, except the microcontroller. We can use a lot of types of microcontrollers for this module, but for a simple module with less accuracy needed, we can choose the cheap one. RGB LED costs around $0.1-0.2, Photoresistor costs around $0.5-2, for the indicator LED we can use red LED that costs

around $0.1-0.3, and if we want to use Arduino microcontroller, it costs around $1025. RGB LED acts as the emitting light, while photoresistor acts as the light receiver that has different resistances depending on the reflected light it got. The signal from photoresistor will reach microcontroller and will be proceed by the program that we command. If the color match with the color indication we had in the program, indicator LED will be turned on. The sensor in this module is photoresistor and the actuator is the indicator LED.

Figure 2.2 Circuit of The Module