Smart Automated Robot Changing Tires using Ultrasonic Sensors

1ABDULRAHMAN ALKANDARI, 1ADEL ALFOUDERY, 2MUSTAFA ALI ABUZARAIDA,

1ABDULLAH ALSHEHAB

1Computer Department, Basic education college (PAAET), KUWAIT

2Computer Science department, Faculty of Information Technology Misurata University, LIBYA

Abstract: drivers of cars always face issues and some difficulties during driving the car on the road with their car’s

tires. Puncture of tires, tube burst, or bends in rims of tires are actions or events surely lead to complete stop moving

Keywords: Autonomous robotic arm; Arduino; Microcontroller; Robotic changing wheel; DC motor; Tire puncture

fixing system.

Received: April 15, 2022. Revised: May 19, 2023. Accepted: June 16, 2023. Published: July 21, 2023.

1. Introduction

The rapid developments in technology and major

changes in the field of mechatronic and mechanics are

substantially changing patterns according to the

accordingly [9].

The need of change burst tires and perform mechanic

activities using other resources than human, is getting

high attention in different communities, and attracted the

attention of different countries as well because of its

positive effects on the community, and reducing

exposure to risks during changing the tire or getting

injured, which considered as dangerous missions and

activities by some people [5].

driver safety in a variety of ways will be programmed

and loaded into a complete device and hit the market; it

promises to change tire of any car on the road with

safety and easy approach. The development approach of

this system is to be applied in a prototype, which

includes the required and proper hardware components

fit to the project requirements [5, 6].

The proposed idea is to design and implement a

The designed robot system supposed to reduce the

3. Problem Statement

During performing this study and gathering the

requirements of the project idea, it was observed that

there are some critical issues handle may human face

and need a solution to handle this part of the idea.

Also, the project considered as a real solution for

elder people who suffers in changing the vehicle tire

when burst or explosion, and this category of people is

our target to be served, especially old women, who most

of them are not able to change the tire when needed, or

even doesn’t has enough skills to do so.

Another concern is for the mechanic shops, which

sometimes there are no enough resources at the shop to

do such a task, or even sometimes at rush hours, all staff

are busy to handle any extra tasks, so the robot would be

AI started to be evolved in different industries. Currently,

Artificial Intelligence algorithms and concept is being

integrated and applied with different technologies in

different ways such as IMB’s Watson, and self-driving

vehicles [7].

Robotics in general considered as a major domain in

artificial intelligence that focusing on researches and

studies of designing and implementing smart and

efficient robot. Robots also considered as intelligent

agents that acting the real environment [8].

When it comes to the vehicular tires changing systems,

it seems that detect each part of the tire and conduct the

required job is a new research field. However, many

efforts have been done regarding the vehicle wheels

changing within the domain of vehicles.

The overall aim of this project is to come up with a

robot that is able to detect the place for screws in the tire,

take them off from the base of the tire, remove the old

tire that is already damaged, and finally replace it with a

The robot design is to use a robot to replace defective

When the device is activated, the punctured wheel,

entire setup. This entire section is the robot's lower body

permanently attached to the vehicle. The system may

use a jack positioned between the front and rear wheels

on each side of the vehicle, or it may have a jack at each

of the four wheels. The system also includes a novel

wheel and hub-axle assembly with a split axle that can

be adjusted by an electric motor. The hub has a number

of arms extending from it in a star shape, each with a

finger at its free end. When the axle is extended, the

wheel has a plurality of slots defined in it for receiving

the fingers to lock the wheel on the hub, and a plurality

with the back alignment. When the user presses the front

To build and design our project prototype, we have

The main component in the system is Arduino UNO

The following flowchart diagram, Figure 6, clarifies

exactly how is the system is working and how processes

flow through the system components. As shown in

figure8, system begins operating when the user clicks on

the touch sensor (switch) to turn on the system.

Car prototype designed in a way to be over the

together and with the main board microcontroller, plus

the implementation steps until we reached the final

developed prototype. Also, it shows the small motor

used to move backward and forward to change the tire.

The small motor (handler) connected to two DC motors,

Fig. 7 Small Motor & Handler

Both small motors responsible of changing the tire,

For the development part, robotic vehicle wheel

We have tested the main component, which is the

Figure 9 shows the final result of the project prototype

after assembling all hardware components together with

the main microcontroller board, and developing the

required functionalities using Arduino IDE.

The car prototype as mentioned previously made from

light type of wood to simplify the carrying operation on

the handler, also the base which contains the electrical

circuit connected through Arduino wires and relay to

For future development and improvement, we are

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