Under contract
with NSWC Panama City, ASI implemented an improved arm control functionality referred to
by users as ‘flying the manipulator’ on the iRobot Packbot. In this control
scheme, the user controls the manipulator (or end effector) of the robotic arm
as he might fly an airplane: using the camera directly behind the gripper as the
‘cockpit’ view of the craft, the operator uses a joystick to move the gripper up
& down and left & right relative to the gripper rather than the ground.
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