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From: truemner@ice6.kcps.rd.hydro.on.ca (Gary Truemner)
Subject: Re: vision guided robots
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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 23:13:14 GMT
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In article <1993May19.131333.10264@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK>,
j.pretlove@mech.surrey.ac.uk (John Pretlove) wrote:
> 
> I have a CCD camera pair on the end of a robot arm which (quiet successfully)
> guides the robot arm to intercept an object in the workcell. To determine the
> relationship between the world and the robot coordinate system I carry out
> camera-to-world calibration and toolpoint-to-eye calibration.
> Not only are these calibrations tedious and complex but they are also error-prone.
> 
> My question to the newsgroup is: what are the alternatives ?
> 

****Telepresence Inc. Vancouver,British Columbia CANADA...I think design
similar stereo camera vision devices with XYZ position readout.
....we use ROBCAD 3D simulation sfwe. and stereo cameras for similar
purpose.
Please email me...ANY questions welcome........
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