Controllable robot arm with integrated 3D mapping capability

• Main Author: Loh, Jeng
• Other Authors: Cuong Dang
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/167471
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

With the advancement in robotic technology over the years, the use of robots has become more ubiquitous in our daily lives. Robots can be found in all shapes and sizes from large industrial robots used in manufacturing to the common vacuum cleaner robots you can find in people’s houses today. According to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) the annual installations of industrial robots globally hit an “All Time High” at 517,000 in the year 2021 despite the logistic issues faced due to the pandemic. The term “robot” was coined in 1920 in Prague by a Czech writer named Karel Čapek and was used in the naming of a fictious company called “Rossum’s Universal Robots” that made artificial people. Nowadays the term robot is used to describe an “autonomous machine capable of sensing its environment, carrying out computations to make decisions, and performing actions in the real world.”