Crawling robot arm controlled via Potentiometer

This is a robot I built last semester for an electric circuits class. I plan on using it this semester for my senior design project. My goal is to look at different ways of controlling it. Right now it is being controlled by three potentiometers. One makes the base rotate and the other two actuate the joints of the arm.

The jerkiness is a result of me controlling it with the potentiometer not an inherent feature of the servos or the code translating the potentiometer reading into servo outputs.

The next type of control I'm going to look at is a state machine with some type of closed loop control. After that I'm going to look at neural nets and see if I can get this thing to learn to control itself.

More information on the project can be found at:
http://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ECE90/index.php/Velez2009

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• robot
• swarthmore
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• design
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this is great !!!!