Paper information (Dynamic Object Capture using Fast Vision Tracking)

Contacts:

Randy Sargent   rsargent@newtonlabs.com   (206) 643-6218
Carl Witty      cwitty@newtonlabs.com     (206) 643-6218

Randy Sargent will be out of town between Nov 27 and Dec 1.

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The paper was written with Microsoft Word 95 for Windows.  

There are many pictures in the paper.  We made dummy versions of the
pictures (very low resolution) and labeled the pictures with the filenames
of the real pictures.  We inserted these dummy pictures into the paper.  We
haven't made any effort to size the pictures appropriately, or to flow text
around them.

There is one diagram in the paper, made with Corel Draw for Windows,
version 3.  We have included the original Corel Draw document, as well as
embedding it in the document (it does appear to print well from inside the
document).  Note that some of the lines are drawn in black, and some drawn
in 50% grey.

Files included:

aaai96.doc:      Our paper, in MSWord format
anne.tif:        Picture of Anne Wright for bio section
bbailey.tif:     Picture of Bill Bailey for bio section
cognachrome.tif: Picture of Cognachrome vision system
cwitty.tif:      Picture of Carl Witty for bio section
m1-grab-1.tif    M1 grabbing a ball, frame 1
m1-grab-2.tif    M1 grabbing a ball, frame 2
m1-grab-3.tif    M1 grabbing a ball, frame 3
m1-grip.tif      Closeup on M1's gripper
m1.tif           The robot M1
m1contest.tif    From the video of M1 winning the contest.  Quality is
                   lower than the other pictures
m1drive.tif      Closeup on M1's drive train
m1ir.tif         Closeup on M1's IR array
randy.tif        Picture of Randy Sargent for bio section
readme.txt       This file
scamp.tif        Picture of SCAMP servoing to target underwater
scampdia.cdr     Corel Draw diagram of SCAMP target geometry
soccer-3.tif     Three soccer robots with golfball

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Since the draft:

* We've added an abstract at the beginning of the paper

* We've added two parts in the "Other Uses" section.  One is about
performance robotics, and the other is about robot group behavior.

* We've removed a part in the "Other Uses" section about helicopters
docking (we didn't get a response from those doing the work in time).

* We've removed the picture of the WAM robot arm catching a ball (we didn't
get rights to the picture).