Volume: 2 Issue: 2
Year: 2025, Page: 27-31, Doi: https://doi.org/10.70968/ijeaca.v2i2.E113
Received: July 15, 2025 Accepted: Nov. 17, 2025 Published: Dec. 10, 2025
The present paper highlights the designing, implementation, and experimental study of the Automatic Gear Error Detection System for industrial gear inspection purposes. In the designed Automatic Gear Error Detection System, a conveyor belt system, camera sensor unit, Arduino Uno, and MATLAB image processing algorithms are employed for automated gear inspection and defect detection. The acquired gear image is processed in grayscale and binary form for precise measurement and detection of various gear parameters. Essential gear parameters like outer diameter, inner diameter, PCD, gear module, gear height, and the number of teeth are accurately measured and compared with their respective standard values. According to the comparison findings, defective gears are automatically segregated from good gears through an automated rejection mechanism. It was experimentally proven that the designed Automatic Gear Error Detection System performs reliable and non-contact gear inspection with high accuracy and minimum inspection time.
Keywords: Automatic Gear Error Detection System
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Mahajan P, Phanse PS, Mogale SA, Dighe PR. Automatic Gear Error Detection System. 2025;2(2):27-31.
https://doi.org/10.70968/ijeaca.v2i2.E113