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.

Work in New World

Since the several inspire insight last year, I had attempted to launch a new expected plan for the computer science knowledge improvement. Despite the relevant club I had joined in the senior high school, how to learn deeply and connect smoothly with the other engineering application was still a significant issue afterward. I had listed the courses for self-learning selected from the computer science department. Simultaneously, I emphasized on the implementation via conduct the project solving the practical problems in the daily life. However, the academic courses which is the foundational knowledge is boring, I tended to make various adjustment as the schedule go forward based on the understanding gradually. After several months, what an amazing surprise happened, our corporation announced the new employee training development project. The complete program corporate with Taipei Tech launched since the beginning of the year.

The program has closely reached to the half after four months, there are main two sections, one is introduction of academic knowledge and the other is for the programming. This is the first time for me to receive the formal and systematic training. Although, I frequently study by myself and I have a vast amount experience in the investigation when I was a graduate student as well. The homework according following two main subjects are also distinguished different. The homework of academic knowledge is merely figure out and answers the question raised which are able to be found in the handouts easily. On the other hand, the homework of programming is actual requirement for the program implementation following the challenging examples. They are the rare opportunities motivated us to spend time and try the best to do so. As the content become more complicated later, the more tools in programming are available led to the homework became more difficult at the same time.