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Robot Arm Video Tutorials

This is a set of tutorials that demonstrate how to build a simulation of a robot arm within AnimatLab and then connect the neural control system from that simulation to real hardware to control a real robot arm.

1. Robot Arm Description
This is a short demo that describes the robot arm project and shows it running on the Jetson TK1 microcomputer board.
2. Robot Arm Smulation Setup
Demonstrates how to setup the initial robot arm simulation so you can use the robotics framework to control it.
3. Robot Arm Control Part 1
Part 1 of a tutorial that shows how to configure your robot arm simulation to control the real robot using the Firmata protocol running on an Arbotix Arduino microcontroller board.
4. Robot Arm Control Part 2
Part 2 of a tutorial that shows how to configure your robot arm simulation to control the real robot using the Firmata protocol running on an Arbotix Arduino microcontroller board.
5. Robot Arm Position and Velocity Control
This builds on the Robot Control tutorials and shows you how to swap in a different IO controller, the Usb2Dynamixel, and how to use both position and velocity control for the servos of your robot. This gives you more accurate movements.
6. Robot Arm Joystick Control
This builds on the Robot Control tutorials and shows you how to use the XBee Commander joystick to dynamically control the movement of your robot arm in both the simulation and on the real hardware.