SAUVIM Video Clips

Demo 010
Welcome!

The first video. This demo has been filmed in the ASL lab during the preparation of the main robot controller.

Demo 026
Search for the target

This demo has been realized at a mature stage of SAUVIM, employing almost all the sensing devices. It shows the vehicle performing a scan of a predefined area in search for a target. Once found, SAUVIM points the end-effector of the robotic arm toward it. Movements of the vehicle are compensated by the arm.

Demo 027:
Autonomous Landing and Hovering

This demo shows the high performance of the navigation controller, capable of maintaining the 4 tons SAUVIM vehicle in an hovering configuration with a sub-inch precision.

Demo 023:
Target Recovery

Cable Hooking, Hi-Res (2006.10.26).
The arm looks for the target and, once found, hooks a cable on it.

Demo 021:
Cable Cutting

The arm looks for the cable (using a ball as reference) and, once found, cuts it using a tool integrated in the gripper.

Demo 020:
Chessboard Tracker

The arm looks for a chessboard and drops a tool over it. Very simple, but the first demonstration of active target tracking.

Demo 012:
Test Tube

The arm pours the content of a test-tube into a container. It tracks the position of the set using an ultrasonic motion tracker.

The xSense project is an underwater version of the above tracker.

Demo 025:
Camera Calibration

The arm looks toward a chessboard from several different angles in order to auto-calibrate its camera.