I am undertaking a project which involves an aspect of robotic control for which i hope to use an Arduino braccio with an uno and shield board. I defined the end effector points in MATLAB and used the IK designer to create paths and a simulation of how i want the robot to move. now i wish to implement this on the Arduino via serial communication ideally, but don't know the best way to go about it. i have a matrix of servo angles, representing the 6 servos on the braccio robot and would rather just use MATLAB now to control the robot if possible rather than Arduino IDE.
any help appreciated
As you have probably guessed, the very first thing to do is get the serial communications working, probably messaging going both ways, and then expand bit by bit to get your project running.
Would you know of any helpful sites or videos with creating the serial communication
I guess I would begin by documenting the data you wish to exchange using the serial communications, and then format the messages that need to be exchanged to get the needed data to the devices.
Hi,
Today i tried communicating with the Arduino board through MATLAB using the MATLAB Arduino hardware support add-on, to no avail. then i tried to reload an old sketch through the Arduino IDE, which still did nothing so i tried to reset the uno board using a double-tap of the reset button. when i plugged it back in i got a windows error message saying ''last time this USB was connected the device malfunctioned'' and now neither my pc or a desktop in the lab recognize the USB connection at all in the com port. Is the board cooked? or any idea on how to remedy this?