Design and implementation of a drawbot using Matlab and Arduino Mega

Abstract

Recent research on robots has been trying to develop intelligent robots that can match human behavior on high level intelligent tasks that require sensing, complex motion and intelligence. In the recent few years robot is given some artistic behavior that robot can sing, dance even robot can play games. This paper presents a control method for a robotic arm to let the robot to acquire another human artistic behavior “drawing”. In the proposed design MATLAB has been used for image processing interface and trajectory calculation. Value of co-ordinate position of a pixel of binary image is converted into joint angle applying inverse kinematics and servos are controlled with Arduino Mega. Sobel and Canny are applied for edge detection method and authors showed comparison between the output images after applying Sobel and Canny edge detection method. Image is given input through Matlab GUI, which is user interactive.