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Final Year Project, Mechanical Engineering, HKUST

Three-dimensional manipulation using a robot
The project is required to design a system or use the existing robot carrying out a complex task that at least involves three-dimensional motion. The knowledge in mechanical design, programming, control theory, trajectory planning and robot kinematics is required.

Since the usage of robots in the industry is becoming more and more popular, efficient and user-friendly software to operate them is needed. A pre-programmed robot can perform simple tasks in one-dimensional or two-dimensional space. As the need for more advanced robots to work on much more complicated jobs with high efficiency is needed, a programmable robot that is able to perform three-dimensional manufacture was produced recently. This project is about writing a program for controlling a robot to conduct three-dimensional tasks. You can simply think of the robot as a human hand and the software as the human brain.

The main feature of this program is its user-friendliness. In the past, people have found it difficult to write a program for a robot. This is because programming language is totally different from written English. Not only do people have to remember many commands, but they also have to write hundreds or thousands of lines just to perform a simple task. Moreover, it was a nightmare to debug the program from thousands of lines. The software of my final year project is to overcome the above problems. It has a graphic interface. Users need not remember the commands of the robot. Whatever you do on the screen, the robot will do the same. You can modify the program by just a few clicks of the mouse.

In the project, one of the important tasks is to create a program by Microsfot Visual C++ using MFC and OpenGL. I named it KO(K's Off-line programming for MOTOMAN K10S).

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