The First Step of The New Trial

The robot arm is the significant role in the automatic control engineering, which consist of mechanism, electronic and programing. It is difficult to distinguish the boundary between three parts above. The industrial automatic productions demand the high accuracy and reliability requiring high costs. It is properly development the simplified model depending upon the basic theory and small scale pattern, despite we are not involve in this field. Fortunately, the useful resources flourish discussion and provided on the Internet platform. Basing on the semi-finished controller and programming library, what merely we are supposed to do is generating the creativities to think and make the model we are necessary.

The first simple trial model is based on the Arduino development kit. The servo motors required purchasing and the connection rods were made of wood and cardboard. The regular 6 axis robot arms provided the reference for mechanism design. Both basic artwork and woodworking were taken advantage of by the tools we original possess but which are seldom used. Generally, the mechanism was much harder than I had expected in the beginning. Except for the processing problems with unfamiliar tools including cutting and drilling, the reasonable motion design and the weight balance have also taken me a lot of time. The second one was the circuit design according to Arduino board. We attempt to join several additional functions, containing the rotation control interface, the LED screen display, and remote control. The items above would not affect the main structure of this project, so we had kept the flexible room for adjustment in the future. However, there is limitation of the additional pattern due to the quantity of the input or output connection. If there has been already installation of six servo motor, it would be more difficult to join too much extra function on the board. For the first trial I have developed the project, it is naturally that I was likely to be over ambitious for the approaching objective. It would be fine for mixing with more creativity when it is actually necessary in the future.

On the other hand, the programming according to hardware of development kit is much easier compared to complicated data structure. The processing and calculation of data on the development board are via the single chip microcomputer which is not able to process too much complexity. The libraries corresponding to each actuators or sensor are available to be acquired in the public forum or association. The complicated section under the bottom level have often solved in these libraries. It is probably merely necessary to set the parameter in the function for several specific adjustments. Although, sufficiently resources are available for take advantage of, the main value is still in the creativities for application. Making new idea for next trial would be continuously carry on, and these tools are the reliable backing for our creation.