AnimatLab Robotic Arm Video Tutorial: Joystick Control

Описание: In this tutorial I demonstrate how to use the Arbotix Commander joystick to control the movements of both the simulated and real robotic arm that was built in the earlier tutorials. I used the AnimatLab robotics framework (http://www.animatlab.com) to build a remote control robot arm. This toolkit allows you to build biologically realistic neural network controllers for robots without having to write any code. You simply layout your network visually, configure the interfaces to the real hardware, and easily switch between running in simulation mode and on the real hardware. The robot arm uses an Arbotix Arduino controller running the Firmata protocol to interface with a master conmputer running the neural network control system.

These are the previous video tutorials
1. Simulation Setup (   • AnimatLab Robotic Arm Video Tutorial: Simu...  )
2. Robot Control Part 1 (   • AnimatLab Robotic Arm Video Tutorial: Robo...  )
3. Robot Control Part 2 (   • AnimatLab Robotic Arm Video Tutorial: Robo...  )

Here is a parts list for the robot arm
Parts List
3 AX-12 Dynamixel Servo motors
1 F2 Bioloid Frame Part
1 F1 Bioloid Frame Part
3 F3 Bioloid Frame Parts
1 PhantomX Parallel AX-12 Gripper http://www.trossenrobotics.com/p/phan...

1 Arbotix Arduino Control Board
http://www.trossenrobotics.com/p/arbo...

1 Small Force Sensing Resistor
http://www.trossenrobotics.com/store/...

1 1KOhm Pull-Up Resistor

1 Arbotix Commander (http://www.trossenrobotics.com/p/arbo...)

1 UartSBee interfaces (http://www.trossenrobotics.com/uartsbee)

2 XBee mesh network serial communicator

Please see the Arbotix RobotController overview (http://learn.trossenrobotics.com/38-i...) page to learn how to configure the Arbotix controller to work, and see the Dynamanager ID guide (http://learn.trossenrobotics.com/inde...) for a description on how to set the IDs of your servos.

To configure the Arbotix commander and XBee mesh please follow these instructions.
1. Getting started (http://learn.trossenrobotics.com/38-i...)

2. Configuring XBees for Arbotix (http://learn.trossenrobotics.com/arbo...)

The base simulation for this tutorial is available from the AnimatLab Warehouse (http://www.animatlab.com/Community/An.... Search for Robot Arm Control Base Simulation. Also, the Bioloid frame meshes are available in the warehouse as well by searching for Bioloid Frame Models.