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CAESAR, an android head that would use the two cameras in its eyes to find and face you

In the summer of 2013, between my junior and senior year, my friend Genji and I conducted research in the Mechatronics Lab in New York University. We helped to upgrade their robotic arms by installing potentiometers onto the servo motors of their robots. With the use of an Arduino Uno, we used a P.I.D. (Proportional Integral Derivative) controller in order to account for the error between the desired angles set for the servo motors and the actual angles of the servo motors. A PID controller calculates an error value as the difference between a measured process variable and a desired setpoint. The controller attempts to minimize the error by adjusting the process through use of a manipulated variable, which in this case is a PWM function in an Arduino.

We also contributed to CAESAR, an android head that would swivel to face you with the help of face-recognition technology.

Our professor asked the lab for photos of students working hard on some robot for a presentation. We came up with this

View the Arduino source code used to calibrate the robotic arms here.

Check out our Solidworks CAD files here.