HAL 9000 Adept Robot Widget Sorter
By Billiard Television Editor • Feb 25th, 2019 • Category: Billiard TipsFree Billiard Video – http://video_demos.colostate.edu
Demonstration of an example student project (in a graduate robotics course) to sort widgets into stacks of “good” widgets (with hole) and “bad” widgets (no hole). An Adept One robot is used, and the solution was inspired by the HAL 9000 computer in the movie: “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
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So he transfers the entire “questionable” stack every time it is in the way. I wonder if he remembers how deep that stack is and moves the whole thing at once. If so, it would probably have to make that movement more slowly.
All questionable widgets are placed in the “questionable” stack.
What does he do if you give him two or more questionable widgets?
HAL insists on burdening the silly humans with the CRT/camera sync issue.
This is actually a good example of sampling and aliasing (per my other recent videos).
ah the black bar of video distortion. curse of the CT monitors. Still really awesome though