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Jiannan Zhang commented on Melissa Quintero's blog post Finally the bright purse!
"Yes I'm interested in the pdf. Could you send it to my mail box? jn.zhang610@gmail.com. Thanks and good luck for your project."
May 21
Jiannan Zhang posted videos
May 18
Jiannan Zhang commented on Melissa Quintero's blog post Finally the bright purse!
"I'm curious how to make the project a business plan? Are there any books talking about this, or how do you teach this in class? I rarely thought about this before."
May 18
Jiannan Zhang commented on Jiannan Zhang's blog post Robots of The Future 2
"I also saw a girl from Cornell, her group made an application that can make the robot pick up different things on a table and put them into some slots according to the size and shape, such as putting stuff in a fridge. Although it's a academic…"
May 18
Jiannan Zhang commented on Jiannan Zhang's blog post Robots of The Future 2
"I saw a lot of robot arms, some have good mechanical structures, while some have AI embedded using a camera or parallel stereo cameras. I met a guy from Japan who is doing applications of the arms, they have very mature technologies, such as…"
May 18
Carlo Treu commented on Jiannan Zhang's blog post Robots of The Future 2
"It's more industrial related... human/robot interaction on the assembly line... I am looking for some technologies also that help humans interacting with robots specially regarding space available in the shopfloor."
May 17
Carlo Treu and Jiannan Zhang are now friends
May 17
Jiannan Zhang commented on Jiannan Zhang's blog post Robots of The Future 2
"This is in St.Paul city this year. The best two conferences are ICRA and IROS, usually ICRA is in May, IROS is in October. As I know, there are also several good conferences in Japan every year. What kind of research are you doing in robotics?"
May 17
Carlo Treu commented on Jiannan Zhang's blog post Robots of The Future 2
"Very nice. Where was this event? You know more if there are others like this one? I am interested in this topic and doing some research in robotics..."
May 16
Jiannan Zhang posted blog posts
May 16
Jiannan Zhang commented on Ben Koo's video
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"Interesting. The rooms look great, and good to see Harvard's connection to China."
May 16
Jiannan Zhang and lemontea are now friends
May 15
Jiannan Zhang posted a status
"Today the new SkyDrive in Microsoft shop amazed me,fast synchronization,combine Desktop, we are not far from FS on cloud and OS on browser."
May 14
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Laundry-Folding Robot from UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley PR2 Robot Folds Laundry In 2010, the Berkeley PR2 (unofficially named Brett, for "Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks") showed us...
May 12
Elyn Chen liked Jiannan Zhang's blog post Object Skeleton -- Grassfire Transform
May 7
Jiannan Zhang posted a blog post

Object Skeleton -- Grassfire Transform

Grassfire transform is one of the most neat and brilliant algorithms I've ever seen. It finds the distance between the boundary and each point in an object by two raster scans. It is fast, and accurate. A simple implementation I made is attached here, it uses 4-connectivity.GrassFire.tar.gz Some satisfactory results:…See More
May 7

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Robots of The Future 2

Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:46am 5 Comments

3. PR2

今天发现PR2怀里藏了一个Kinect.但是由于Kinect的深度传感范围很小,所以PR2令有Laser帮助建立深度图像.

4. ROS已经成为众多只能机器人的基础…

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Robots of The Future 1

Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:36am 0 Comments

1. 尝试Da Vinci

2. NASA 半身机器人

现在国际空间站服役,可操作多种零件,灵活的机械手和视觉系统…

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IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2012)

Posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:22am 0 Comments

ICRA是美国两个机器人相关领域的顶级会议之一,今年全球近2000人来到圣保罗River Center参加ICRA,展示最新的研究成果和工业产品.

在学术成果的报告之余,会议展览厅有众多非常吸引眼球的机器人展示,它们涵盖了机器人研究的许多领域,例如Da Vinci Surgery,NAO 人形机器人,NASA的国际空间站机器人.对于其中很多产品,我都亲自领教了一下,十分高兴.

总体说来,我有几个感受.第一,传统的机械和信号控制的研究已经趋于完备,机器人的发展更多依赖于与计算机视觉,人工智能的结合.以往的机械臂,流水线装配机器人都加入了视觉的元素,使它们更加智能和高效.第二,更多的新奇的想法正在逐步成为现实.例如Harry Asada(MIT Mechanical Engineering)培育能够用光照控制运动的肌肉组织而代替机械动力结构,虽然能量利用效率还很低(小于10%),但实验的成果已经足够让人称赞.第三,新型的机器人已经逐渐开始产业化,NAO,DarWin,Da…

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Object Skeleton -- Grassfire Transform

Posted on May 7, 2012 at 1:58am 0 Comments

Grassfire transform is one of the most neat and brilliant algorithms I've ever seen. It finds the distance between the boundary and each point in an object by two raster scans. It is fast, and accurate.

 

A simple implementation I made is attached here, it uses 4-connectivity.…

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