My first robotic arm needs your help!

Hello everyone my name is Brad Burling and I am from New Zealand.

I am totally new to robotics and need all your guys help.

I need to make a robotic arm that will pick up a ring and guide it over the finger of a hand

There will be 4 rings and a total of 4 fingers on the hand per operation.

The 4 rings will always be stacked side by side in the exact same spot ever operation.

The hands position will chance after every operation but will roughly be in the same spot, facing the same way as the last operation.

The direction of the fingers will always be pointing up but they will not always be in the same position as the previous operation.

It has to be done automatically without any manual intervention.

First of all is this possible?

This is my fist project with robotics, I admit I should be starting of small but I’d rather start with this because its what I want to do.

Hello Brad. I don’t suspect the arm part of the project is the complicated part but rather you will need some way to determine the location of the fingers in 3-space with some degree of accuracy. There is a program called roborealm (search term on this forum) that may allow you to use two static cameras (or one with some funky mirrors and a splitter) and scripts to accomplish the detection and sending the required commands to a controller such as the ssc-32 driving the servos in an arm. Once you have that you need to figure out a gripper arrangement that will reliably pick up a ring from the stack and hold it in the proper orientation to let the arm place it on the finger. I’m not going to say it is an easy project but it’s not super difficult either once you get a handle on the tools available.

Separate note, please don’t cross post the same message in multiple threads, see rules for posting guidelines. Most of the regular visitors to this forum hit all topics on an almost daily basis so if they can help they generally will. :wink:

thanks eddie b

sorry for posting the same message on another topic, my bad

thanks for the info on my project

ill keep googleing untill im a brain box on robotics befor attempting my famous ring on ya finger arm