HAL 9000 Adept Robot Widget Sorter

http://video_demos.colostate.edu

Demonstration of an example student project (in a graduate robotics course) to sort widgets into stacks of "good" widgets (with hole) and "bad" widgets (no hole). An Adept One robot is used, and the solution was inspired by the HAL 9000 computer in the movie: "2001: A Space Odyssey."

Many more video demonstrations of engineering and physics principles and devices can be found at:

http://video_demos.colostate.edu

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• 2001
• Space
• Odyssey
• HAL
• 9000
• computer
• Adept
• One
• Robot
• widget
• sorter
• vision
• system
• part
• recognition

[Pleatherwill]

What does he do if you give him two or more questionable widgets?

[DrDaveBilliards]

All questionable widgets are placed in the "questionable" stack.

[Isodomon]

ah the black bar of video distortion. curse of the CT monitors. Still really awesome though

[DrDaveBilliards]

HAL insists on burdening the silly humans with the CRT/camera sync issue.

This is actually a good example of sampling and aliasing (per my other recent videos).

[Pleatherwill]

So he transfers the entire "questionable" stack every time it is in the way. I wonder if he remembers how deep that stack is and moves the whole thing at once. If so, it would probably have to make that movement more slowly.