The micro-Robot

It's been a while I haven't write anything in this blog. Anyway, I'd like to write about the things which happened at the company which I'm having the industrial training at.


There After the first few weeks in the company, I have been given a set of robot parts & tools to build. This is like a lego building toys but in a different way. The pre-etch and manufactured PCB were prepared and what i need to do is just to find the right electronic components and solder it onto the PCB. There are 2 pcb plates involved in a set of robot part. The first part would be the top part which consists of the microcontroller module, LCD, power control, switches, 7 segments display, RS232 communication interface, electronics user interface hardware as well as a servo motor to navigate the Ultrasonic sensor. The other part is the bottom PCB which consists of the geared motor, motor driver IC, rectifiers and a few other electronic components.

This robot that i build were the first prototype of the microrobot build by the company. This was the testing platform to measure and investigate if the robot would be the fit for market and to correct as well as improving the robot system.

One thing which obviously lack about the robot is that the design of the center of gravity. It requires the placement of the tyres and the roller to be placed well apart to make sure that the robot is stable. Other than that, the robot is fine and ready to market.

This would be considered as one of the cheap but less powerful as compared to the company's first built robot.