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Team lead: Saad Qaisar Hammad Hassan Adeel Chaudhari Abdul Moiz Jadoon

WIRELESSLY SYNCHRONIZED ROBOTIC ARM (WSRA) ABSTRACT

Robots are gaining an ever increasing foothold in society, with the particular uses of tele-operated robotic arms in fields such as medical surgery, remote manipulation of objects in hazardous environment, weaponry for warfare and industrial automation attracting a lot of research and development attention. It is envisaged that service and personal care robots will become more prevalent at home in the near future and will be very useful in assistive operations for human care, particularly the elderly and disabled. Such robots will likely become increasingly anthropomorphic in form, and although many years will pass before such robots will become fully autonomous, there is still much to gain using robots controlled by humans. Many challenges present themselves when it comes to the remote control of robots by humans, such as the ease of operation, haptic sensing, and tele-presence. The problem of intuitive operation is mostly attributed to the type of interface available to the user, and the time taken to master the input controls. Haptic feedback requires that forces that the robotic arm experiences are translated back to the operator in some sort of physical means, which greatly increases the ability to perform dexterous

operations. Tele-presence where the operator is given the impression of being in the remote environment is currently most often realized through the use of vision systems. The control rig is a glove-like device, covering the hand and arm. It measures five fingers movement. Planar movement, such as elbow movement, or vertical movement between the wrist and forearm is measured using flex sensors (but currently it does not form a part of our project) a lightweight component that increases resistance when bent. This project will allow us to develop a very easy interface between humans and machines. It is an Anthropomorphic Robot, shaped in a way that resembles a human hand, i.e. with independent fingers and thumb. This design offers to perform various functions as performed by a human hand. Robotic arm replicates casual human arm motion via bend sensors. The system consists of a bend sensor system attached to the human user and a tele-operated robotic arm that mimics the users casual motion. The robotic arm is designed to be lifelike but simplified. User motions are sensed by bend sensors, processed by a central microcontroller, and replicated by servomotors on the robotic arm.

BEND SENSORS*

SIGNAL PROCESSING

TRANSMITTER

CHANNEL*

RECEIVER

DEMODULATION*

MICROCONTROLLER

ROBOT CONTROL

BRAIN CONTROL
An effort is under way to control our robotic arm using brain signals. In this approach electrodes are attached to the head of the controller. The system learns various signals from the users brain by running several times whenever a specific sign appears before the user. Whenever the user will think of the same signal pattern, a predefined set of signals will be generated by the system which will be used as an input to the RF modules via the microcontroller. It will be an extra feature to our project. This approach would be useful for the disabled as no motion is required by the user when brain controlled.