The topic of this final qualification work was chosen due to the importance of developing robotic systems designed to assist people with disabilities. Advances in robotics and automation technologies have opened up new prospects for creating devices that can significantly improve the quality of life for these people. In this context, designing a robotic hand with a control system adapted to the needs of people with disabilities is a major scientific and practical challenge. This work addresses the problem of developing and manufacturing a four-degree-of-freedom robotic hand suitable for practical manipulation. Addressing this issue requires a comprehensive approach, encompassing the design of the hand's mechanical structure, the development of its control system, and its integration with a technical vision system and software based on the Robot Operating System (ROS).

Large language models offer new ways of empowering people to program robot applications-namely, code generation via prompting. However, the code generated by LLMs is susceptible to errors. This work reports a preliminary exploration that empirically characterizes common errors produced by LLMs in robot programming. We categorize these errors into two phases: interpretation and execution. In this work, we focus on errors in execution and observe that they are caused by LLMs being "forgetful" of key information provided in user prompts. Based on this observation, we propose prompt engineering tactics designed to reduce errors in execution. We then demonstrate the effectiveness of these tactics with three language models: ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA-2. Finally, we discuss lessons learned from using LLMs in robot programming and call for the benchmarking of LLM-powered end-user development of robot applications.