A laboratory work: A teaching robot arm for mechanics and electronic circuits

Abstract

Mechanics and electronic systems can be applied to the physical models to understand the physical phenomena for students in laboratory. In this paper we have developed a robot arm for a laboratory experiment, where students learn how to design a human arm and fingers with basic knowledge of the mechanics and electronics. This experiment culminates in an exhibition tie together aspects of a surprisingly wide range of disciplines and represents an alternative vision of how robot arm design can be used to teach both physics and electric/electronic engineering. A new tool is described that combines the mechanical arrangement with an electronic control circuit and it is shown that this can be readily used as an instructional tool in the physics laboratory to teach the law of mechanics and basic electronic devices for both teacher and students.