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Article #677Re: High Accuracy manipulators
From: John Purbrick
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 1990 05:06
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 1990 05:06
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In article <5832@hplabsb.HP.COM> mgsmith@hplabsb.UUCP (Michael Smith) writes: >.....I have never seen force >compliance used in an actual application, not because it is unavailable, >but because it is not as needed as other technologies. > >...... >Mike "my favorite project was a robotic bartender" Smith >HP Labs Well, since you lead up to it--I made a system a few years ago which would visit a row of paper cups one at a time and pinch them with a force-sensing servo controlled gripper. It could reliably tell the difference between single cups and double cups (one inside another). The idea was to build a pyramid out of the cups but I never got around to it. Think how this could revolutionize the bartending field! --John Purbrick
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!ai-lab!rice-chex!jpexg From: jpexg@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (John Purbrick) Newsgroups: comp.robotics Subject: Re: High Accuracy manipulators Keywords: accuracy, position control vs. force control Message-ID: <10459@life.ai.mit.edu> Date: 6 Sep 90 05:06:39 GMT References: <5829@hplabsb.HP.COM> <29067@netnews.upenn.edu> <5832@hplabsb.HP.COM> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Lines: 18