Overcoming Technical Hurdles in Developing an Improved Robotic Arm

It has been over a month since the FHNW Rover team received new servos for our improved robotic arm. While we were initially excited to get started, we soon discovered that there were technical hurdles to overcome before we could achieve our first lift.We were using the same open-source software by Trossen Robotics (https://github.com/interbotix) that we had used for our previous arm, but the driver did not support different series of motors in the same arm. This meant that we had to modify the software ourselves to make everything work properly.One of the main challenges we faced was getting the different series of motors in the same arm to work together smoothly. This required us to spend significant time tweaking the arm to ensure that it was functioning properly.Despite these technical hurdles, we eventually achieved our first lift. However, we recognize that there are still tweaks and small improvements…