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Fri, 24 Feb 2006

first test of motorized object tracking with SRV-1

Here's a quick test of a motorized object tracking function we're adding to the SRV-1. It's pretty basic, but works surprisingly well.

Here's what the base station console looks like when we first sync to the target object (in this case, my hand).

   

Here's a short sequence of photos showing how the robot follows my hand.







Or click here to see a 5MB Quicktime movie of the sequence.

It actually took less than 20 lines of C-code to implement this function in the SRV firmware. Clearly, there's a lot of opportunity to create better filters, smoother motion, etc, but this isn't a bad start ...

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