An instructional robotics and machine vision laboratory

Clement, W.I.; Knowles, K.A.

doi:10.1109/13.275184

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“…Master and slave components are coupled systematically to provide real time control of servo motors using PC software. A complete instruction interpreter is successfully created within micro-controllers that not only enable 3D visualization of robotic arm simulation, but also makes SMART ARM software portable between different types of robotic arm model [8]. Moreover, practical robotic arm is also able to synchronize with simulation motion in order to help designers to visualize the program flow of the designed arm in specific trajectory plan and also well-defined speed.…”

Section: Firmware Programmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

6-DOF PC-Based Robotic Arm (PC-ROBOARM) with efficient trajectory planning and speed control

Hao¹,

Leck²,

Hun³

2011

2011 4th International Conference on Mechatronics (ICOM)

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Over the past decades, design and control a robotic arm is not an easy job. Many consideration need to be taken care while designing and controlling robotic arm. In addition, different robotic arm design may lead to different control solution. Furthermore, it is difficult for the robotic arm to follow the assigned geometry path in high precision and accuracy manner. This paper introduces the design and development of 6-DOF (degree of freedom) PC-Based Robotic Arm (PC-ROBOARM). The main context of the study is concerning a 6-DOF robotic arm, which is modeled as three-link, with each joint connected with a suitable servomotor. The robotic arm design and control solution is implemented by self developed computer software which is named as SMART ARM. It is a computer aided design and control solution for 6-DOF robotic arm which come with an user friendly graphical user interface (GUI). It allows user to model or design virtual robotic arm before building the real one. Therefore, the user can estimate the optimum size of actual robotic arm at the beginning so as to minimize the building cost and suite the practical environment. Furthermore, once the actual robotic arm has been built, the user can reuse the software to control the actual robotic arm in an effortless way without wasting time in constructing new control solution. The software also provides simulation feature. Through simulation in the GUI, the software assists greatly in visualizing the robotic arm trajectory planning. The PC-ROBOARM is actual robotic arm developed to prove the simulation results. The 6-DOF robotic arm design is based on PUMA (Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly) jointed-arm model. Both point-to-point motion and continuous path motion are tested in simulation and actual arm controls.

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Section: Firmware Programmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

6-DOF PC-Based Robotic Arm (PC-ROBOARM) with efficient trajectory planning and speed control

Hao¹,

Leck²,

Hun³

2011

2011 4th International Conference on Mechatronics (ICOM)

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“…Clement describes an instructional laboratory at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, designed for teaching both robotics and machine vision courses, which gives equal weight to each of the two topics [35]. Some areas of emphasis, such as manufacturing technology, seem to integrate computer vision and robotics so closely that they become one field (robot vision) [36], [37].…”

Section: Robotics Coursesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review of computer vision education

Bebis

Egbert

Shah³

2003

IEEE Trans. Educ.

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Computer vision is becoming a mainstream subject of study in computer science and engineering. With the rapid explosion of multimedia and the extensive use of video and image-based communications over the World Wide Web, there is a strong demand for educating students to become knowledgeable in computer imaging and vision. The purpose of this paper is to review the status of computer vision education today.

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“…Responding to this need, the National Science Foundation has actively supported a number of projects involving Machine Vision lab development for undergraduate education. Samples of such projects can be found in [1][2][3][4]. Some of the successful endeavors in mentoring undergraduates in computer vision research are reported in [5,6] and resulted in the design of extensive software packages for image processing and machine vision applications [7,8].…”

Section: A Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%