PR2

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PR2

• Christian Sanchez
• MIS 304

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PR2

• Video

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Willow Garage

• Research lab in Menlo Park, California
• Develop hardware and open source software (for
  personal robotics applications)
• In 2009, Willow Garage created a robot that can
  open doors, locate power outlets, and plug
  itself. The PR2

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PR2

• Its a two-armed wheeled robot of size similar to
  a human.
• They plan to released to the public for academic
  and industrial robotics research.
• The PR2 is a spinoff of PR1, a robotics platform
  being created at Stanford.
• It uses ROM (robot operating system) and the
  OpenCV computer vision library.

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PR2 Specifications

• Has two 7-DOF arms with a payload of 1.8kg.
• Sensors include a 5 megapixel camera, a tilting
  laser range finder, and an inertial measurement
  unit.
• The texture projector projects a pattern on the
  environment to create 3D information for capture
  by cameras, texture light.
• The head-mounted laser scanner measures distance
  by time-of light.
• The two computers located on the base of the
  robot are 8-core servers with 24 Gigabytes of RAM
  for a total of 48 GB.
• The battery system consists of 16 laptop
  batteries.

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New accomplishments

• Video 2

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So how long before it can distinguish between
good and bad beer?

• QUESTIONS?????