Simulation of Mitsubishi RV-M1 Robotic Arms by Using MATLAB® for High School Teaching

Abstract

Since most of high school students in Jakarta love robots very much, they join Engineering Club at school. Unfortunately, only few high schools have a real robot arm for students to learn in their school labs. The purpose of this research is to create a small simulation program based on MATLAB® and Robotic Toolbox 9.10 which resembles Mitsubishi RV-M1 robotics arm. The simulation is a 3D view and 5 degree of freedom which its end-effectors position is as close as the real one. It is hoped the results of this research study can be used as a base for further development of human controlled robotics arms simulation.