The Implementation and Testing of a Robotic Arm on an Autonomous Vehicle
Hyun Il Jun · Calhoun: The Naval Postgraduate School Institutional Archive (Naval Postgraduate School) · 2007
An articulated arm with three degrees of freedom is implemented and tested on an autonomous robot. Kinematic equations of motion for the arm are modeled and tested. A communication architecture is successfully implemented for wireless manual control of the arm. Visual and thermal cues are realized with an onboard camera and a collocated thermal sensor. Future work suggests investigations for full autonomous arm control without manual operator intervention based on sensor cues and visual scene correlation.