Virtual Manufacturing Background Project

Survey Response

• Name(s): Ken Goldberg
• Contact Information:

  Ken Goldberg | goldberg@usc.edu | (213) 740-9080 | 208 Powell Hall,  USC
  Asst. Prof of Computer Science and EE-Systems    | LA, CA 90089-0273 USA
     Associate Director, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems
  		University of Southern California
  	        http://www.usc.edu/users/goldberg/
  	     "You only live once, if then."  - Philip Rieff
  

• Information related to Virtual Manufacturing

  An inter-disciplinary team at the University of Southern California is
  pleased to announce Mercury Site, a WWW server that allows users to
  tele-operate a robot arm over the net.  Users view the environment
  surrounding the arm via a sequence of live images taken by a CCD
  camera mounted on a commercial robot arm.  The robot is positioned
  over a terrain filled with sand; a pneumatic system, also mounted on
  the robot, allows users to direct short bursts of compressed air into
  the sand at selected points.  Thus users can "excavate" regions within
  the sand by positioning the arm, delivering a burst of air, and
  viewing the newly cleared region.  
  
  Please see:
  
  http://www.usc.edu/dept/raiders/
  

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