Development of Wireless Controlling and Monitoring System for Robotic Hand Using Zigbee Protocol

Abstract

Nowadays, the robotic arm is fast becoming the most popular robotic form used in the industry among others. Therefore, the issues regarding remote monitoring and controlling system are very important, which measures different environmental parameters at a distance away from the room and sets various condition for a desired environment through a wireless communication system operated from a central room. Thus, it is crucial to create a programming system which can control the movement of each part of the industrial robot in order to ensure it functions properly. EDARM ED-7100 is one of the simplest models of the robotic arm, which has a manual controller to control the movement of the robotic arm. In order to improve this control system, a new controller system was redesigned in this work by using Zigbee. It is a communication protocol for safety and economic data communication in an industrial field, where the wired communication is either expensive or difficult under physical and experimental conditions, such as the worker cannot recognize the error through the manufacturing process. Hence, this paper introduced a system that used microcontroller (AT89S52) with wireless devices (Zigbee) and sensors to control the robotic hand (EDARM ED-7100) and to monitor the information regarding the robot's parameter using WiFi technology. A mathematical model was derived through an empirical method to specify the robot's configuration changes. In this work, the ability of controlling system had increased, as well as hardware, while the necessities of other similar equipment for data communication were minimized. In addition, it presents the comparison of two controlling systems: using the Zigbee and without using it. Based from the experiment it can be safely concluded that the robotic arm's movement had followed a linear function.

Design and Performance of a XBee 900 MHz Acquisition System Aimed at Industrial Applications

“…This technology is used very commonly in industrial applications. For example, [42] presents a control and monitoring system for a robotic hand. In [43], it is used for controlling a vehicle.…”

Reliable Control Applications with Wireless Communication Technologies: Application to Robotic Systems

“…It was also employed indoors and outdoors for controlling robots or machinery in the range of several meters. For example, for monitoring and controlling robotics hand remotely or using hand gestures [38,39]. In addition, for implementing a MPC algorithm aimed at a multi-drone system [40] or, for controlling an in-wheel motor by means of a network-based discrete proportional integral (PI) algorithm [41].…”

“…Expected distances between the Edge nodes, attached to the process, and the Wireless Controller, which executes the control algorithm, are in the range of a few meters. This distance is considered adequate for a large number of industrial applications, involving robotic applications since it has been used in several works [18,38,39,41,42,45]. For instance, Dalef et al [38] provided experimental results of wireless control and monitoring design for a remote located robotic hand.…”

ZigBee-based Parameter Monitoring and Controlling Scheme for Multiple DC Motors

“…In this research work, the ATMEGA 32 is used because of a variety of features such as some additional peripherals, 3 flexible timer/counters with compare modes. Moreover, it can be programmed by C-language, assembly language, or high level/low-level language [11]. The input level can be modified to generate an interrupt Added in EEPROM to store data over power-off time, needed program space for additional parameter program can be added and most important at mega have faster execution speed other than a microcontroller.…”