Testing Vision and Reachability

We have been testing our vision system this week. A scene is shown below with two objects placed on two planes. The vision system successfully identifies two planes with different orientations and segments the objects.

                           

Additionally the robot arm was placed in multiple poses to optimise the reachability. 

Team Applied Robotics to compete in Amazon Picking Challenge

Team Applied Robotics officially qualified to compete in the Amazon Picking Challenge at ICRA 2015. The challenge is to build a robotic application that is able to pick up randomly placed items from a shelf. Although this is a simple task for a human, it is still a huge challenge to automate. Amazon hopes to spur the advancements of the technologies that will enable an economically viable generic order picking solution.

Team Applied Robotics will be working on:

• Development of a compliant gripper
• Object recognition
• Path planning
• Task coordination

You will be able to follow our progress on this blog

You can check out our qualification video on Youtube