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Welcome to stevethornburg.com This page is for Michael Albrecht, and was initially focused on "Robotics for Air Hockey" reference material. All information referenced on this page is from various institutions of higher learning, unless otherwise specified. Note that various supplemental reference material has been added since the initial publication date. (24 SEP.05) |
Current Information Resources readme.txt The "readme" document is simply a text version of this document. So let's start with the basics . . . What is Motion Detection? Here's what Wiki says about motion detection. Mike, I'm sure you are well aware of many applications for motion control, so for now I will only try to give you some information that other researchers have posted to the internet, including CMU for their own air hockey robot. Interesting project, for sure! As soon as I have time, I will find you some information about other methods of object tracking. For some high-speed applications, using video streams is not always the most effocient method. The reasons are numerous, but often come down to a cost issue: high-speed video capture is expensive and in the "real world" is subject to disturbances that can negatively impact performance. Ambient light levels, reflections, physical instability, optical contamination, and other things can cause tracking systems to perform poorly. I hope this material is helpful, and will update it as time permits. Please let me know if you find broken links. Building a Robotic Arm to Play Air Hockey "robotarm.pdf" is a PDF document file Summary: "In the mid-1980s, the CMU Robotics Club built a robotic air hockey table..." Note that a PDF document reader is required, such as Adobe Reader Note also that Adobe tries to get you to install the Yahoo Toolbar, which I strongly advise against. The current version of the Adobe Reader is 7.0, and there are three (3) service packs as of 09/24/05. The service packs must be installed separate from the Reader, and they bring it up to version to 7.0.3 Alternate for robotarm.pdf , in case of broken or slow link. Related references: http://www.roboticsclub.org/oldprojects/20032004/hockey2/ These items are from the preceeding link. If their server is too slow, try the alternate links . . . http://www.roboticsclub.org/oldprojects/20032004/hockey2/not_us-hockeyfullsmall.avi (view this one!) Alternate for not_us-hockeyfullsmall.avi 14,375,274 bytes http://www.roboticsclub.org/oldprojects/20032004/hockey2/manual-speed-test.AVI Alternate for manual-speed-test.AVI 16,402,872 bytes http://www.roboticsclub.org/oldprojects/20032004/hockey2/conceptart/ robotarm2.pdf Programming a Robotic Arm to Play Air Hockey Alternate for robotarm2.pdf iros02.pdf Humanoid Robot Learning and Game Playing Using PC-Based Vision Alternate for iros02.pdf mechano99.pdf Bipedal Locomotion, Robot Gymnastics, and Robot Air Hockey: A Rapprochement (ignore grammatical and typographical errors in that document) Alternate for mechano99.pdf cca2000.pdf On the Controllability of an Air Hockey Puck HTML version of above PDF file Alternate for cca2000.pdf Air Hockey Can Be Deep And see on-page link to page of same title Learning from Observation Using Primitives Using a PID-based Technique for Competitive Odometry and Dead-Reckoning The Dilberts Intelligent Motion Unites Diverse Worlds 3D Histogram motion detection Miscellaneous related pages (not in any particular order) . . . http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~kjg/CS333_SP97/hockey.html http://lims.mech.northwestern.edu/~lynch/research/flatland/setup.html http://www.ee.washington.edu/research/arcs/education.html http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/cog/VisionSystem/motion_detection.html http://www-cv.mech.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/research/tracking_group/tracking.html http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/resources/courses/robotics/ http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/resources/courses/robotics/doc/opencvdocs/ref/OpenCVRef_Motion_Tracking.htm http://www.cs.csi.cuny.edu/~zhangs/ Motion Detection Software Project Motion detection benchmark data set Richefeu_ICVGIP2004.pdf Motion Detection Algorithm based on Background Estimation Origin: http://www.ensta.fr/~richefeu/Publications/Richefeu_ICVGIP2004.pdf RobustLeastSquares.pdf Least Squares Motion Detection Algorithm Origin: http://www.ecit.qub.ac.uk/ResearchDevelopment/Imageandvisionsystems/DocumentDownloads/Filetoupload,16164,en.pdf Object-trajectory-identification.pdf Motion Detection and Representing Moving Objects from Video Origin: http://www.spatial.maine.edu/~hari/Object-trajectory-identification.pdf |
29 SEP.05 - New Whitepapers Added wp_213.pdf How to Plan Your PC-Based Machine Vision System Origin: Vision Systems Design, reference to whitepaper from Data Translation wp_215.pdf Real-Time High-Speed Image Processing Origin: Vision Systems Design, reference to whitepaper from Dalsa Coreco wp_216.pdf Choosing the Right Image Acquisition Technology Origin: Vision Systems Design, reference to whitepaper from Dalsa Coreco |
25 OCT.05 - Programming Language Links Added Complete C++ language tutorial Online C++ Tutorial C++ Tutorials (programmingtutorials.com home page) DevCentral Tutorials: C/C++ (devcentral.iticentral.com home page) CODING-ZONE C++ Tutorials (coding-zone.co.uk home page) Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Using C++ Numerical Recipes in C (individual chapter PDFs - no single download) Fee based training Various options . . . $30/monthly, $250/Yearly Visual Basic Tutorials Visual Basic Tutorials Visual Basic 6 Tutorials DevCentral Tutorials: Visual Basic Visual Basic .NET Tutorials VB.Net Everything VB.Net Heaven |
Robotics in Practice, and related reference material Re-wiring the Body To move his prosthetic arm, Jesse Sullivan merely thinks. Nature's own wiring and a digital limb do the rest. Building thinking robotics for the real world The Obidos Lectures |
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