Some applications of neuroarm interactive robot and webots robot simulation tool

Abstract

In this paper they are presented possibilities an advanced 7 DOF robotic arm research platform (NeuroArm) equipped with various sensors, and controlled by seven 16 bit processors and one 32 bit Core Embedded PC running 2.6 Linux. The NeuroArm comes with a suite of software including a MATLAB configuration and a suite of C, API libraries and low level protocols for all joint level controls and sensors. Moreover, the robot incorporates, as standard, a novel human-robot safety interaction system to facilitate robot operation in close proximity to people. Also,software tools including the Cyberbotics Webots Simulation package i.e. Webots is a development environment used to model, program and simulate robot and it is well suited for research and educational purposes related to robotics. Webots also contains a number of interfaces to real robots, so that once your simulated robot behaves as expected, you can transfer its control program to a real robot like e-puck, Khepera, Hemisson, LEGO Mindstorms, Aibo, etc. Finally, the effectiveness of webots will be illustrated on suitable model of Neuroarm and inverted pendulum.