PR2 Replugged

A small team at Willow Garage spent two weeks making plugging in better and faster.

More information: http://www.willowgarage.com/blog/2010/02/22/robot-replugged

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• willowgarage
• pr2
• plugging
• robot
• robotics
• autonomous
• opensource
• ros

[nateso95]

@davepamn fairy tale land

[roleplayman]

is it motor speed that makes robot slow or the software it self?

[cputrdoc]

PR2 restrictions aside, it is possible for a robot to "feel" whether a movement is successful or not, just as a Roomba recognizes when its side-wheels or brushes are hard to turn and need to be cleaned. What we "feel" is the force of the wall pushing back on our hand when the plug has missed its target. That force back on the motors should be detectable.

[0chappell]

It's great,but I would insist on the fact that humans dont know accurately everything,but learn from mistakes. When we do this task we are not perfect, we don't plug in on the first try,we put our hand approximately just like PR2 in 2009. The difference is in the speed we human correct our movements until we "feel" the plug going into the outlet. But maybe this is impossible if the robot hasn't sense of touch like us. I would allow PR2 to learn from his mistakes. I love all your work, hats off!