A Geometric Approach for Robotic Arm Kinematics with Hardware Design, Electrical Design, and Implementation

Abstract EN

This paper presents a geometric approach to solve the unknown joint angles required for the autonomous positioning of a robotic arm.

A plethora of complex mathematical processes is reduced using basic trigonometric in the modeling of the robotic arm.

This modeling and analysis approach is tested using a five-degree-of-freedom arm with a gripper style end effector mounted to an iRobot Create mobile platform.

The geometric method is easily modifiable for similar robotic system architectures and provides the capability of local autonomy to a system which is very difficult to manually control.