[]PROPOSAL “INTELLIGENT MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTIC MANIPULATOR FOR INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION”

ABSTRACT

The aim of our final year project is to build an prototype of a industrial robotic manipulator (arm). This robotic arm will be trainable so we will be able to train it for use in different situations and purposes. It will posses 6 degree of freedom which increases its feasibility, flexibility and efficiency. It will be a multipurpose manipulator capable of operator controlled, semi-automatic and fully automatic operations under different situations making it quite useful for industrial automation.

We will be using Wiper Motor for the mechanical power as it provides relatively sufficient power than other DC Motors. Every motor will be coupled with a angular measurement sensor using potentiometer. We will be using the new and popular AVR microcontrollers in this project. Power E-MOSFET will be used for motor control. Sequence of steps can be stored in PC, MMC card or 12C EPROM as the robot’s memory.

For circuit simulation we will be using Proteus. We will be primarily using C and C++ programming language for the software development. Cross-platform GUI development toolkit wxWidgets will be used for building the graphical user interface (GUI) of our software. OpenGL is used for simulation of robotic arm in real-time, with the help of which we can easily observe the movements of our robotic arm in the PC.