Experiment Plan

After a discussion with my supervisor, we believe building a system from scratch and install a force sensor is too time consuming, using an existing system is a more effective option. The KUKA robot has been incorporated widely with a number of other projects, it has a force sensor mounted on the end-effector. The now plan is to press the probe against the sensor while oscillating the end-effector. Two tests will be carried out, one with constant frequency with increasing amplitude and another with constant amplitude but to vary the frequency of oscillation. Both data from the external force sensor and the load cell on the probe is to be recorded. I will need to find out how to export data from the serial monitor of arduino to a manageable format like excel.