Tag: Robotics

The innovative field of medical robotics has experienced significant growth over the last twenty years. During my first year studies at Cardiff University, we were tasked with designing a ‘surgical robot’ controlled by an Arduino Uno R3 board. Using only micro-servo motors, I quickly realised that the key to a functional and accurate device would be to create C++ code that was adaptable to the inevitable last minute design changes.

My First Year Engineering Group Design Project

In my first year, I designed and built a two degree-of-freedom robotic arm controlled by C++ code running on an Arduino Uno. On the surface, it was a fairly typical introductory design project: design a mechanism, manufacture it, assemble it, and make it move between specified coordinates.

In reality, it became my first lesson in how intelligent control systems can compensate for imperfect hardware.