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Box Pushing

The robot can interact with its environment by pushing objects. To demonstrate this the robot was programmed to push a box along a specified path. The challenge of this task was in locating the position of the box relative to the robot and controlling the motion of the box. The pan-tilt camera was used to locate the position of the box and the bump panels were used to push the box. The robot was able to push the box along a specified triangular path. The box was kept at all times within 5 cm of the specified path.



Vladimir Tucakov
Tue Oct 8 14:08:29 PDT 1996