Robotic Hand

Poh, Wai Kit (2011) Robotic Hand. Final Year Project (Other), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

The main objective of this project is to develop a robotic hand which controlled by a glove. The construction of a robotic hand consists of four fingers. With the fingers, the robotic hand is able to grasp something and follow your hand movement when you wearing a glove. The function of robots in society is constantly evolving and current research endeavours to bring them further into realm of domestic assistance, medicine, military, search and rescue, and exploration. A robotic hand can used in tasks such as welding, painting, assembling, packaging, storage, product inspection and test. Rate of accident will reduce since work process become automation. Designation of robotic hand consists of two main parts which are mechanical and electronic part. The mechanical part of robotic hand construction consists of measuring, cutting and drilling process. For electronic part, a Hall Effect circuit are developed. Movement of robotic hand is control by the servomotor board and Hall Effect circuit where the received information is from Hall Effect sensor transmitted to Hall Effect circuit then transmitted to servomotor board. The program executing in servomotor board is written using C programming language which is compiled and debugged by MPLAB IDE v8.30. The most important part is in programming part. This robotic hand is using MPLAB toprogram a set of C programming language into PIC16F877A. To ensure the robotic hand follow the movement of our hand, the signal has transmitted to PIC microcontroller and at the time it process the signal, it also store the instruction into memory of PIC.