A Review of Current Techniques for Robotic Arm Manipulation and Mobile Navigation

Robotic manipulators are widely used in the field of robotics. In this paper, four different manipulators are reviewed, and their use in robotic applications is presented. These robotic implementations and applications continue to evolve to meet an ever-growing industrial need for improved efficiency and functionality. This is a work in progress and the next step of this research is to use the knowledge from the papers reviewed and develop an robotic architecture using a mobile base for navigation and a manipulator for the movement of small objects in a controlled indoor environment.