The RHD is a robotic arm equipped with a gripper, and a wireless remote handle controller device (RHC) able to make the robotic articulation to replicate its movement. They are connected through a Bluetooth communication. Servos are used in the construction of the robotic arm. The RHC is equipped with four ADXL345 accelerometers and a HMC5843 digital compass as sensors. A mbed Microcontroller base on NXP LPC1768 with an ARM Cortex-M3 Core is used to control the RHC and a Pololu micro serial servo controller to control the robotic arm.

1. Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringEEL-4920 – Senior Design IIFALL 2010 Team 4 Alfredo Alonso PI:2597832Jose R. Padron PI:2604846Vincent J. Cueto PI:2338280Sandy R. Garcia PI:2606490Senior Design II ProposalMentor: Dr. Herman Watson12/03/2010 Remote Handler Device (RHD)

2. RHD

3. Table of Contents

4. RHD-Used Components

6. Acrylic

7. Gripper

8. Cables and Connectors

9. Replaced wood by a acrylic chassis

11. Robotic Arm Construction

12. Robotic arm testing

14. It also can speed up or down the recorded movements and can deal with both, real or virtual data.

15. Base on this it can handle the RHD using previously recorded data from the Remote Handler Controller (RHC), or just by itself without need for the RHC to create the required incoming data for it.

18. Choose paths for data to be written/read

19. Set ‘Max. Time’ parameters

20. Set ‘Delay Factor’

21. Set baud rates according to your hardware.

23. RHD-Programming