robot arm bowling competition

[Admin]

This video was taken during a competition in my manipulation class years ago. The prof that taught the class, Matt Mason, is now the director of the CMU Robotics Institute.

This is a robot arm bowling competition using two DENSO 6DOF robot arms.

Each team programs an arm to do two tasks:
- Try to place all three of its pegs in the opponents' goal
- Block opponent pegs from going in your own goal

If you want to learn more about robot arm theory, check out:
http://www.societyofrobots.com/robot_arm_tutorial.shtml (more)

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[Admin]

oh I forgot to mention, my robot is the one on the right at 2:20 (countdown timer)

unlike the other groups that tried the throwing method, we tried the sliding peg method which worked really well

[rgcustodio]

Reminds me of "air hockey".