Robot arm using a webcam to point at household objects

[Rapperonstreet]

How much cost that ? thanks

[knotha]

@Rapperonstreet about 20.000 € if I`m not wrong.

[kengalea]

What I meant previously ....for the robotic arm to move to the CENTROID with respect to your camera! Thanks

[kengalea]

Pls I am doing something similar to this. Can you please tell me how you calculated the servo angles for the robotic arm to move?? I am also using Matlab. Thanks

[kengalea]

What kind of interface are you using to control the robot with that webcam?

[demha123]

what kind of motors

[MattsCatts]

can it grab things??

it has a claw!! this is boring

[SeeMyProfile]

What is the point (sorry!) of this effort? In what application could this be useful?

[trisky1234]

I would imagine the point is to make it able to locate objects, obviously the next step is to have it pick them up automatically..

[SeeMyProfile]

Very cool.

[Alathea54]

I think it could be handy for disabled people who can't retrieve something if they've dropped it.

[icecream005]

i could imagine a giant one in you r bed room that locates all of the objects that arent supposed to be there, and then throws them out the window

[togie14]

hahaha, well hmm. lets take a look at things from a resonable viewpoint.

if you had a robotic arm. that could point to shit. with a cam.

WOULDENT YOU BE FUCKING STOKED!

[NeoDeGenero]

heya, just wondering what program are you using for your image processing/

[barryridge]

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback :) For that test I was using Matlab + simple background subtraction using the Otsu thresholding method. Then PCA gets you the centroid of the object. In future, we will be using a more robust background subtraction technique hopefully.

You've got some nice videos up... what have you been using and what's your project about? :)

Barry

[NeoDeGenero]

hey please read my Pm =)

[Shimimarukuun]

what are going to do with pointing eye robots?

they could turn evil and poke out someones eye!