Talk on High speed manipulation from Carson Reynolds

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Manipulation is the field of manipulating physical objects by end effectors which are usually attached to a robotic arms. The most end effectors are special tools which are designed to perform special task during a manufacture process (e.g. painting pistols, electro welds or holders). Some more general and extremely fast end effectors are pressented in the following video. It contains a talk given by the assistant professor Carson Reynolds from the Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory in Tokyo. His team is using extreme fast end effectors and arms, and did combining them with high speed vision systems. The outcome is quiet impressive. Their robot hand can grasp a grain of rice with a tweezer or dynamically catch a flying mobile phone.

In addition to the video has the blog  Robotspodcast talked to Mr. Reynolds, which can be found as podcast  here (MP3).

Labview Educational Edition

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NI LabVIEW Education Edition software helps high school teachers bring science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) concepts to life through hands-on learning. With LabVIEW, you can quickly build a program to log data, power a robot, or analyze information. The new LabVIEW Education Edition was designed in conjunction with Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach to meet the needs of engineering educators, and works seamlessly with LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT, Vernier SensorDAQ and Go! Sensors, and TETRIX™ by Pitsco.

(taken from http://www.ni.com/academic/education_edition/)

check out the German press release

Dennis W. Hong presents RoMeLa

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RoMeLa, the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory at Virginia Tech is currently working on „Robot Evolution Through Intelligent Design“. This means they are taking evolutionary inspired designs and try to adopted them to robotic purpose. Dennis W. Hong, PhD and his students have been creating a lot of really interesting new robots, for example three legged robots, snake like robots or humanoids (e.g. DARwIn). The talk from the TEDxNASA conference, Mr. Hong offers a short overview of their research.

By the way, if you’re wondering about that motto and how „evolution“ can meet „intelligent design“ here comes the answer. Hong tells us:

„Though it has both evolution and intelligent design in the sentence, it has nothing to do with either – „we“ push the boundaries and come up with the next generation robotics (robot evolution) through us doing rigorous research and designing them intelligently (intelligent design). I think it is a clever tag line for our lab.“

Introduction to I2C

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I2C is one of the most used electronically data bus that is extremely often used in embedded systems. It is used for attaching sensors, actuators of other subsystems into the system.

Recently i have found a good introduction which includes background knowledge and a HowToUs on www.uchobby.com.

Johnny Chunge Lee´s HMI Projects

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Prof. Johnny Chunge Lee is a researcher and currently working for „Microsoft – Applied Sciences“ in Redmond. He has a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction gained at the Carnegie Mellon University on his thesis „Projector-Based Location Discovery and Tracking“ [website].

On his website he has some great projects related to HMI that could also be helpful in robotics.

So for example his experiments on the usage of the WII controlers,

or his projects on Projector Calibration and RFID usage.

Campus Party Europe

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Europe is looking for talents! Those who are members of EURON have already read the announcement, those who are not must read now.  The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation is proud to introduce ‘Campus Party Europe.’ This event will be held in Madrid from April 14th to April 18th of 2010, celebrating the Spanish Presidency of the European Union and organized by Asociacion E3 Futura.

For four days, 800 young people from each of the 27 member states of the EU will participate in activities such as conferences, workshops and challenges centred around three knowledge areas: Science (Robotics, Astronomy and Modding), Digital Creativity (Video, Animation, Design, Photography and Blogs) and Innovation (Application development and Security). Travel, accomodation and catering costs will be fully covered by the organizaton!

In order to obtain your invitation, all you have to do is being registered as Campusero (if you still aren’t registered just fill the registration form with your personal data) and attach the information on the project in which you are participating at your “User Card” of the web.

What’s more, the best projects will be shown in the “Projects Forum” which will be held during Campus Party Europe and three of them (one from each area of knowledge: Science, Innovation and Digital Creativity) will be awarded with 3.000 Euros each.

For more information please refer to the official website of the event.

Programming Tutorials and free Mindstorms Software Addons

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Before starting this new blog here, i have been collecting Lego Mindstorms related material in my public Wuala Group „ Robotics, Robotik, Mindstorms, Asuro, Yeti, more (www.nxtreme.net)“.

I also uploaded Tutorials for different programming languages.

Feel free to join this group.