IoT Based Control of Robotic Manipulator using Arbotix-M Microcontroller

Robotic manipulator is one of the most important robotic devices that finds a wide variety of applications in industries. There is a lot of research done in past to control the robotic manipulator using the classical control methods. A lot of experimental work has been performed as well to control the robots using different hardware set up. With the advancement in technology, and development of smart devices, the control of robotic manipulator using Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the favorites research topics recently. The Arbotix-M microcontroller is one of the most powerful microcontrollers that can control multiple servo motors simultaneously. In literature there is very few works which uses Arbotix-M microcontroller, Therefore, in this research we design an IoT based control of a five degree of freedom robotic manipulator using Arbotix-M Microcontroller and XBee module. The experiments were performed on pincher-X 150 robot with simulation done in C++. The robot successfully performed pick and place operation controlled using remote PC.