WEEK 9

On this week was mainly focused on the Final Briefing of FYP 1 on 25 September 2019 (Wednesday). The briefing was held at TTL2  and the attendance for all students that took FYP 1 are compulsory, same as the previous FYP 1 briefing. The briefing was facilitated by Sir Imran Mohammad Sofi. The topic for this final briefing is FYP Proposal Defense Day (Tip & Trick), Submission of Progress Report and Proposal Report. Student need to get ready for FYP proposal defense day on Week 10, that is need to create a slide for FYP project. After that, Sir Imran also has brief about attire and time limit which is every student will give 10 minutes for present and 5 minutes for questionnaire (Q&A). Therefore, student must have skill to present and manage the time which is not too fast and not too slow. This is the important point that required to show on the slide:

1. Introduction
2. Problem statement
3. Objective
4. Scope and Limitation
5. Literature review (3 article)
6. Methodology ( block diagram, flowchart, project material, expected outcome, estimated price and gantt chart )
7. Conclusion

Proposal Presentation that student can get tips

After that, Sir Imran also has brief about submission of progress report and proposal report that must be submit on week 17. The progress and proposal report have guideline that given on UniKL VLE, so student can make review to guide their report.

Progress Report Checklist

Proposal Defense Report Checklist

WEEK 8

After doing researches on week 7, this week is mainly focus on third FYP 1 briefing. This briefing is about Workshop on Methodology (chapter 3), Preliminary Result (Chapter 4) and Abstract Writing. The briefing held on 11 September 2019 (Wednesday) around 3PM until 5PM and the briefing in charged by DR Imran. The attendance for student is compulsory. On the first topic is Methodology (Chapter 3), which is Dr Imran had explained about introduction of methodology. Methodology is a method that we need to propose about how to conduct this project.

• Block diagram of the project
• Flowchart of the project
• Schematic Diagram
• Project equipment and hardware
• Software that are using for the project
• Estimated price
• Gantt Chart about flow project

After that, student also need to propose their preliminary result that is simulation or expected outcome and abstract writing about FYP project. So student need to do research to find the solution to complete FYP project. Student also can refer the format for final report template that given in UniKL VLE.

Final Report Template Final Report Template

On the same day (11 September 2019), I had email to madam six literature review that related on my project. Mostly the article show that the robotic arm is more focus on industrial field and the function is to lifting object.

1. A Geometric Approach for Robotic Arm Kinematics with Hardware Design, Electrical Design, and Implementation (Clothier and Shang, 2010)
2. Human Controlled Robotic Arm (Hogfeldt and Soderman, 2016)
3. Review on Development of Industrial Robotic Arm (Gautam and Gedam, 2017) 
4. Robotic Arm Control Through Human Arm Movement using Accelerometers (Pattnaik and Ranjan, 2013)
5. Robotic Assembly and Force Control Task (Deen Lau, 2013)
6. Six Servo Robot Arm (Dagu, 2016)

WEEK 7

            

           On the brief, student need to find literature review that relate on their project, so Madam Azliza was requested  to find minimum five article related on my project. I spent around 1 week to find the article, I also managed to find five articles for literature review, which is about the robotic arm that consists of currently used in industries technology. Mostly robotic arm is using for lifting heavy object in industries factory. I have choose 3 application on robotic arm that is by using programmable logic controller (PLC), hydraulic and hand gesture.

This is my literature review:

Auto & Manual Control of Robotic Arm Using PLC

Theory of Robotic Arm Control with PLC

Hand Gestures Remote Controlled Robotic Arm

Modelling and Controlling of Flexible Hydraulic Robotic Arm

Design of a Hydraulic Robot Shoulder Based on a Combinatorial  Mechanism