Robotic Arm

Amber B1

brushless motors

harmonic drives

cycloidal reducer

aka cyclodial drive or gear

reduces the speed and increases the torque of a motor

Robot Operating System

our project

add a force sensor

high quality manual therapy

knowing position

lens that lets light through tiny holes

How do we make it safe?

< 1-9 gear reduction

spring in arm

sensor in gear shaft

not back-driveable

add AI algorithms to Robot movement

muscles

sensory

focue

position

sensors

motors (current under load)

"everybody has a back problem"

collect "good" manual therapy

also see Gazebo

medical device

might have too much of a delay for our purposes

need less than a 20ms delay

chain-link connection

power / current

network

click to edit

open socket

asynch commands

click to edit

Force Controller

best for ML training

real-time operating systems

Windows

Linux (special real-time version)

"real time" means guaranteed latencies