ABSTRACT

The inventory management deals with the process of ordering, storing the

inventory, management of raw materials, components and finished products as

well as warehousing and processing such items.

In this project we are using drones for warehouse inventory management. To

minimize the OPEX budget in company and improve the process, efficiency,

manual error by automating the real time inventory & Stock count using drones by

meeting the industry 4.0 standards. This can help industry in automatable and

tedious tasks, like the ones performed on a regular basis for determining the

inventory and for preserving item traceability.

The drones have been equipped to read radio frequency identification

(RFID) tags from tens of meters away while identifying the tags locations. The

equipped drone system has the potential to be used in large warehouses in order to

prevent inventory mismatches and locate individual items.

Like every other industrial sector, the warehousing industry is being transformed

by software, worldwide. Warehouses are proactively adopting digital technologies

with the intent of 100% inventory accuracy, real-time demand & supply insights,

fully secure facilities and world-class worker safety.

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To minimize the OPEX budget in company and improve the process, efficiency,

manual error by automating the real time inventory & Stock count by meeting the

industry 4.0 standards.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER NO. TITLE PAGE NO.

ABSTRACT v
LIST OF TABLE viii
LIST OF FIGURES ix
LIST OF ABBREVIATION x
1 INTRODUCTION 01
2 BOILER DRUM LEVEL CONTROL 05
2.1 Shrink and Swell 06
2.2 Drum Level Measurement 09
3 EXISTING SYSTEM 12
3.1 Ziegler-Nichols Tuning 13
3.1.1 Ziegler-Nichols Closed-Loop Tuning 13
Method

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 3.1.2 Closed Loop 14

4 PROPOSED SYSTEM 15
4.1 Introduction 16
4.2 Particle Swarm Optimization 18
4.2.1 Computational Implementation of PSO 20
4.3 Improvement to the Particle Swarm Optimization 22
Method
4.4 Implementation of PSO-PI 23
5 SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION 25

CHAPTER NO. TITLE PAGE NO.

5.1 MATLAB Coding 25
5.2 Output of the Existing System 27
5.3 Output of the Proposed System 27
6 SIMULATION RESULTS 28
6.1 Simulink Block Diagram Without Disturbance 28

6.1.1 Performance Criteria of the System with 29

Ziegler-Nichols Controller

6.1.2 Performance Criteria of the System With 30

PSO-PI Controller

6.2 Simulink Block Diagram With Disturbance 31

6.2.1 Performance Criteria of the System with 32
Ziegler-Nichols Controller

6.2.2 Performance Criteria of the System with 33

PSO-PI Controller

6.3 Advantages 34
6.4 Applications 34
6.5 Future Scope 34
7 CONCLUSION & FUTURE SCOPE 35

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 APPENDICES

REFERENCES

LIST OF TABLES
TABLE NO. TITLE PAGE NO.

I Performance Criteria of the System With Z-N Controller 29

Without Disturbance

Performance Criteria of the System With PSO-PI 30

II Controller Without Disturbance

III Performance Criteria of the System with Z-N Controller 32

With Disturbance

IV Performance Criteria of the System with PSO-PI 33

Controller with Disturbance

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 LIST OF FIGURES
FIGURE NO. TITLE PAGE NO.

2.1 Water Drum with Bubbles 6

2.2 Drum Level measurement 7
2.3 Slight Glass Drum Level Indicator 8
2.4 Drum Level Connections 9
3.1 Existing System 12
4.1 Proposed System 15
4.2 Minimum of f(x) is same as maximum of – f(x) 17
4.3 Optimal Solution of cf(x) 17
6.1 Drum Level Control System without Disturbance 28
6.2 Graph Obtained Using Z-N tuning without Disturbance 29
6.3 Graph Obtained Using PSO tuning without Disturbance 30
6.4 Drum Level Control System with Disturbance 31

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

PSO - Particle Swarm Optimization

Z-N - Ziegler-Nichols

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PI - Proportional Integral

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