Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vol 27, No 3: September 2022

Development of a low-cost teleoperated and semi-autonomous robotic arm

Megat Satria Zainuddin Yaacob (University Tun Hussein Malaysia)
Jamaludin Jalani (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia)
Amirul Syafiq Sadun (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia Pagoh Campus)
Abang Muhammad Zaid Abang Zulkarnain (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia Pagoh Campus)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Sep 2022

Abstract

A safe human-robot physical interaction is required when the robot is used to help humans. This can be achieved by introducing a teleoperated robotic arm in which a human can teach the robot before performing tasks remotely. This paper develops and establishes a three-degree-of-freedom robotic arm and teaching pendant. In particular, a flexible robotic arm is operated in two different modes, namely, the teleoperated mode and the semi-autonomous mode. The teleoperated mode is a manual control using a teaching pendant, where the robot arm replicates various movements of the teaching pendant. On the contrary, the semi-autonomous mode allows the robot to execute a task from one point to another point repetitively after at least one training of the teaching pendant. The Arduino Uno board is employed as a microcontroller, and the integrated development environment ( IDE ) software is used to write and upload the computer code. A series of tests in which the robot performs different tasks is recorded to evaluate the accuracy and consistency of the semi-autonomous and teleoperated modes. The results show that the performance of the proposed low-cost teleoperated robotic arm is reliable and safe to perform various tasks based on the teaching pendant.

Copyrights © 2022