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RI SEMINAR -- Jon D. Erickson

• WHEN: Friday, Oct 21, 1994; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Refreshments will be served starting at 3:15 pm
• WHERE: ADAMSON WING Auditorium in Baker Hall
• SPEAKER: Jon D. Erickson

      Chief Scientist for Automation and Robotics
      NASA Johnson Space Center
         

• TITLE: Robotic Vision-Guided Dextrous Grasping of Moving Objects in Microgravity

ABSTRACT

The NASA Johnson Space Center's EVA Helper/Retriever Project this year achieved the world's first realtime computer vision guided robotic manipulation and dextrous grasping of moving objects in microgravity on the NASA KC-135 aircraft flying vertical parabolas. This is a major step in achieving intelligent robot technology that enables robots to perceive and react to their environments at the pace of their environments while planning/replanning to achieve stated goals. An overview video and video of the aircraft experimentation will be shown.

The hardware and software architectures will be described. A layered software architecture provides the context to understand the vision guided grasping and additional capabilities.

Future plans will be discussed, including human/robot interaction.

Host:           Yangsheng Xu (xu+@cs.cmu.edu)
Appointment:    Ava Cruse (avac@cs.cmu.edu)