Preliminary Design and Fabrication of a Prototype Spherical Robot

Abstract

This paper is to report about a preliminary design and fabrication of a prototype spherical robot using microcontroller, accelerometer and gyro sensor. A spherical robot is a spherical shape controlled robot without arm and leg move on a flat surface. The objectives of this project are to design suitable mechanical structure, to implement and integrate sensors, controller and the actuator for test and analyze prototype movement on uneven surface. The prototype movement process will involve on wireless remote control to sent signal to generate prototype to move forward, reverse and turn to right or left. The prototype movement process also will allow an entry signal from accelerometer and gyro sensor to make the prototype balance. This being done based on microcontroller ATmega 328P on Arduino UNO.