Wednesday, August 13, 2008

In today’s modern world the development in robotic technology has played an important role in many fields. In the manufacturing field, robot development has focused on engineering robotic arms that perform manufacturing processes. In space technology, the robotic arm with rover has automated space exploration and research. If we consider the military field the robotic arm has relieved the technicians of danger when it comes to deactivation of bombs.

This project is to design and construct Robotic arm with Rover, capable of being programmed from an external device run by a microcontroller. The entire operation is being manually controlled to obtain the desired results.

1. The robotic arm was designed to resemble the human arm that is able to grip, pick and place various objects.
2. The arm is a 5 axis robotic manipulator consisting of a rotating base, three links and a gripper. The five axes consist of the following:
· Shoulder, elbow, wrist (vertical movement)
· An axis at the base (horizontal movement)
· Finger (gripping movement)
3. The whole robotic arm along with the rotating base is placed on a rover which exhibits forward, backward, left and right movements.

We have been successful in designing the mechanical structure of the robotic arm along with the rover and it is operating as planned.

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