Design and manufacturing of a real time imitation based robotic arm using low cost microcontroller

The ultimate goal of research in robotics is to make robots able to replace humans for a certain set of tasks. Imitation is a powerful means to interact with robots, as it is imitation through which humans can transfer their skills to robots in a way that is quite natural to us. The proposed methodology provides a scheme for robot control programming by real time imitation of human demonstrator. Emphasis is placed on the endto-end completeness and generality of the methodology. This paper addresses various aspects of control programming with reference to imitation based robotics, starting from problem selection to complete working robotic system. Key-Words: imitation, real-time, robotic arm, microcontroller, kinematics, biometrics, DOF, I 2 C