wirelessly and the robot acted according to the order sent.
The robot arm used in the project is the Cyton Gamma robot arm by Robai, and
the wifi access point used is the Arduino Yun.
Cyton Gamma robot arm
Arduino Yun board
The robot arm has a control software designed for both windows, mac and linux
operating system. Via usb connection, the robot arm could be controlled to
perform 8 different kind of motion, that is shoulder roll, shoulder pitch,
elbow roll, elbow pitch, wrist roll, wrist pitch, wrist yaw and gripper open.
In this project, the usb connection is replaced with wifi connection to control
the robot. To achieve this, the Arduino Yun board is used as a wifi access
point. The computer is wirelessly connected to the board and send operations
wirelessly, the usb port of the board is connected to the robot arm and input
operation to the robot arm.
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