VisionBased Control 17224 AME 60656

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Vision-Based Control 17224AME 60656
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We dont actually make robots what we make are
just programmable machines.
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We dont actually make robots what we make are
just programmable machines.

• Startling words from a chief researcher at one of
  the largest robot manufacturers in the world.

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We dont actually make robots what we make are
just programmable machines.

• What does he mean?

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We dont actually make robots what we make are
just programmable machines.

• What does he mean?
• Are these not robots?

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• And what makes this a robot?

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• Are these robots?

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• How about this?

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We dont actually make robots what we make are
just programmable machines.

• Our research manager is not alone consider this
  from the U.S. federal government

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Committee on the Assessment of Options for
Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope,
National Research Council, Appendix D, State of
the Art in Robotics -- 2005
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It is difficult to control a robotic arm
with anything remotely approaching the
capabilities of a human being.
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Many robots are teleoperated. In teleoperation,
a human operator controls the robot directly.
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(Why is this a robot, but not this?)
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The meaning of robot has evolved
inconsistently. But in any case, our manager was
not thinking of the human in the loop forms.
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In spirit, industrial robots are closer to
machines like programmablelooms or dishwashers
than to Hollywoods R2D2.
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Most industrial robots simply repeat previously
taught joint motion.
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Managers point is that teach/repeat systems
dont have the sensor-based responsiveness most
people assume.
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But all that may change, radically, within a
decade.
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But all that may change, radically, within a
decade.

• If this kind of machine has been around for fifty
  years, why would the research manager say this?

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But all that may change, radically, within a
decade.

• What would change?
• Would the machines be different?

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But all that may change, radically, within a
decade.

• And what would make the prospect of such a change
  so exciting for a manufacturer of these machines?

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But all that may change, radically, within a
decade.

• It has more to do with the way these machines are
  used. The hardware need not change.

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Consider the motion of this industrial robot.
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Every part of this impressive motion is taught
every part except the loose-bag engagement.
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With the exception of the bag-engage movement,
which is visually guided, the action of this
machine is successful only if everything in the
environment remains in place.
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With the exception of the bag-engage movement,
which is visually guided, the action of this
machine is successful only if everything in the
environment remains in place.
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With the exception of the bag-engage movement,
which is visually guided, the action of this
machine is successful only if everything in the
environment remains in place.
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With the exception of the bag-engage movement,
which is visually guided, the action of this
machine is successful only if everything in the
environment remains in place.
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But the six-degree-of-freedom mechanism is
mechanically capable of responding to
as-located elements anywhere within its
workspace.
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Therefore, if the system had the wherewithal to
respond to as-located, the number of these same
mechanisms that could be sold could grow by
orders of magnitude.