Design and Development of a Cost Effective Robot for Academics and Small Industries

Abstract

The current trends in technology development are indicating that robotics, automation and internet of things are going to take central place in our society, workplace and households. Still, a large section of population is not conversant with the usage, design and development of robotic system for various activities. The high cost of such devices is the major hindrance in making the robots and robotics technology available to larger section of society, industry and academics. In order to address the above issue of availability of cheap robotic system for them, we had initiated the effort to design cost effective open source robotic system. The main focus of this work to design, development and fabrication of intelligent robotic arm can accomplish predefined task accurately. The robot is designed to work in Arduino platform and actuated by servo drives. The motivation behind designing of this robot is to provide school, colleges and small industries of Chhattisgarh to adopt robotics and automation for education and production. The robot was designed with 4-degree of freedom and well tested, further modification and improvements are being implemented to perform more complicated and precise task in all condition. Testing and validation of the robot was carried out and results shows that it work properly.