Robotic system for manufacturing industry : developed tests for gyroscopic & accelerometer platform application and supplementary studies

Living in the modern era gives us opportunities to do our works using some modern technologies. In recent history, robotic arms have made a huge contribution to the manufacturing industry with their advantages such as reducing the labor cost, improving work condition, reducing material wastage, very precise operating ability, and also improving the outcomes. Nevertheless they have a big problem that should be overcome: ‘mobility’. The purpose of the thesis is to contribute to the production and development processes of the autonomous mobile platform (LOCOBOT: Low Cost Robot Co-Workers) to eliminate the immobility of the robotic arms in manufacturing industry. During the thesis, improving the stability of the autonomous mobile platform with using robotic legs while robot arm is performing a pick and drop operation, developing tests for the inertial measurement unit (IMU) to understand the reliability of it for position estimation with ROS (Robot Operating System), the kinematics of the mecanum wheels, the position estimation by using incremental encoder and teleoperation of the mobile platform by using Kinect have been studied.