Controlling a ONE MOTOR 3-Axis Robot Arm

AD: Apply for AI Camp's summer scholarship for an incredible opportunity to build amazing artificial intelligence products this summer (it only takes 10 minutes): This is part 3 of the one-motor robot arm, which uses three continuously variable transmission clutches to translate the motor drive to three axes. This isn’t a totally practical way to make a robot arm, but I wanted to see if it could be controlled electronically and if we can run inverse-kinematics on it. Mostly it’s an experimental project, although it’s a little bit like a Hydraulic system which normally has one engine driving a hydraulic pump, and then multiple valves which switch the fluid to multiple hydraulic cylinders. In my case though, my valves are actually continuously-variable transmissions which use ball-shaped clutches. As the ball tilts a larger or smaller part of the circumference runs between two wheels, giving either a reduction or enlargement in velocity. There’s also a dead-spot in the