PICK AND PLACE ROBOT

WORK IN PROGRESS

Drake Dabbs Mechanical Engineering Student UTA

INTRODUCTION:

This is a Personal Project I am using to combine and apply my knowledge of Mechanical/Electrical Design using SolidWorks and Arduino UNO microprocessor. This robot should be able to pick and place standard 16floz water bottles and other light objects of similar dimensions using a 4DOF lightweight frame and band assisted sliding gripper.

SKILLS USED:

-SolidWorks

-Mechanical Design

-Arduino

-C+

GOALS:

My Goal is for this project to be fully automatically controlled through the Arduino IDE, then manually controllable using a series of potentiometers.

Eventually this machine will be the mechanical basis for future projects where I wish to program joint movements through inverse kinematics

MECHANICAL COMPONENTS

SERVO ATTACHMENTS

SERVO + POTENTIOMETER PROGRAM AND TEST

MOVEMENT, STABILITY & GRIPPER TESTING