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Videos
- Vision-based Robotic Arm Collision Avoidance, January 2025, by Zhiyang Gu and Gary M. Bone
1280 x 720 pixels, 10MB mp4 file:
- Robot learning from demonstration: sorting task.
874 x 718 pixels, 25MB mp4 file:
- Collision avoidance using directional proximity control and reaction.
720 x 480 pixels, 6MB mp4 file:
- Robot arm control using natural hand motions.
640 x 360 pixels, 5MB mp4 file:
- Demonstrates a machine we developed for a local company which quickly
inspects the bearing surfaces on automotive rocker arms using machine
vision; and then sorts them into reject/accept bins. (1.3 MB AVI
file using DIVX compression, the CODEC is available here
or from www.divx.com):

- Demonstrates the machine vision-guided assembly of four automotive
components. (2 MB AVI file using DIVX compression, the CODEC is available
here or from www.divx.com):

- Clip showing our patented 9 degrees-of-freedom
pneumatic servo gripper. 5.5 MB wmv file:

- Shorter clip showing a 2 degrees-of-freedom servo gripper accurately
locating and holding a part which has been roughly placed on a table.
1.1 MB MPEG file:

- Longer clip showing a 2 degrees-of-freedom servo gripper reconfiguring
and picking up two distinctly shaped automotive body parts. 2.4 MB
MPEG file:

Demonstation of moving a cylinder by controlled rolling.
2.2 MB MPEG file: 
Demonstation of turning a nut on a bolt. 2.5 MB MPEG file:

Short clip showing the speed and accuracy of one of our
pneumatic servo actuators. 0.2 MB AVI file: 
(Shorter clip showing a brief highlight of the scanner in
operation and a still shot of the resulting 3D CAD part model. 1.1 MB
MPEG file)
(Longer clip showing the complete scanning operation and an animation of the 3D CAD part model. 2.2
MB MPEG file)
(Shorter clip. 640 k MPEG file) 
(Longer clip. 1.3 MB MPEG file) 
For Further Information Please Contact:
- Dr. Gary M. Bone
- Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
- McMaster University
- Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA, L8S 4L7.
- Phone: (905) 525-9140 ext. 27591
- Fax: (905) 572-7944
- e-mail: gary at mcmaster.ca
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