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Robot to pick up and collect predefined items

2011-07-27T20:11:33+01:00

Something like this is what I want to do. The hexapod AntOne should find, grab and move some objects, like soft drink cans.

I have tried to find objects scanning with the Bioloid Premium IR sensors, but the IR sensor haven't enough precission, specially far than +/- 70-80 cm.

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Kinect is too much big for AntOne, but I will try it with other robot. But I have so little time

Statistics: Posted by siempre.aprendiendo — Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:11 pm

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2011-07-27T12:23:20+01:00

Thanks guys for giving a frame of reference and pointing me to the right direction. I will definitely check out those you tubes.

Statistics: Posted by UncleBob — Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:23 pm

Robot to pick up and collect predefined items

2011-07-27T12:17:23+01:00

There is a framework for doing what you are talking about and it is growing in popularity. it is called ROS (willowgarage.com). The company invests with no stringent financial objectives, tens of millions of USD a year in robotic research and most of their produce is opensource. They have adopted the OpenCV team (Russian geniuses that worked at Intel) and they have a whole lot of PhDs and post-grads doing cool stuff and enhancing the ROS system.
I would recommend that you start by installing ROS and check its capabilities. look for PR2 in youtube and see this thread for example which is about this new @ home trend for getting mobile robots to do useful things (most guys ofcourse think that robots do useful things no matter what they do, but there is hope that robots will do useful things at home one day also in the eyes of non-guys)

Statistics: Posted by limor — Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:17 pm

Robot to pick up and collect predefined items

2011-07-27T11:54:16+01:00

Hi there.

Just to let you know what you're up against.
The latter part of your idea is basically an industrial robotics concept called bin picking.

And form what i know (only hear say) is one of the hardest disciplines in the vision category.

I wish you the best of luck with you project. And i might add that i'd be very interested to follow whatever progress you may make.

Cheers
/Stig.

Statistics: Posted by sap1975 — Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:54 am

Robot to pick up and collect predefined items

2011-07-27T05:57:17+01:00

I just had an idea. Not sure how to do it but seems fun.

The idea is to configure my robot to identify on the fly certain items on the floor e.g leafs. It can do this by matching colours and shapes. it would walk around searching for these items, pick it up with it's right hand and put them into a pocket.

You can also place money e.g a 100 dollar bill into front of it and ask it to collect all the money on the floor.

It would need camera. Either an on board CPU or high speed wifi connect to a computer to calc the image recognition and to send movement commands back. I wonder if connecting a wifi connection to the cm510 rs232 port work.

I think this idea is expandable to real life usage. For example a robot to clean up nuclear waste, to find reusable items from rubbish slump eg aluminum cans.

Statistics: Posted by UncleBob — Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:57 am