Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Path: brunix!cat.cis.Brown.EDU!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!nagle
From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: ATR (Automatic Target Recognition)
Message-ID: <nagleCqst9s.Lpt@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <1994Jun1.222232.382@tora.RoBIN.de> <crumley.770577660@bell.ecn.purdue.edu> <2sl6o7$8qh@jaws.cs.hmc.edu>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 01:53:52 GMT
Lines: 16

bgribble@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu (Bill Gribble) writes:
>In article <crumley.770577660@bell.ecn.purdue.edu>,
>John C. Crumley <crumley@bell.ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:
>> We have a system here which tracks a hovercraft moving on a table
>> top and intercepts it using a planar 2R manipulator.  Vision feedback
>> is used to track the hovercraft.  I believe "interception" involves
>> matching both position and velocity.

>Is this a fancy way of saying you built a robot which plays air hockey?
>Cool! :-)

      Stanford has one of those, too.  It's supposed to be a step toward
a free-flying machine for space operations.  The air table simulates
zero-G.   Seems to work fine, but represents about seven years of work.

					John Nagle
