THINKING ROBOTICS

A blog about robotics, AI, fabrication and architecture ... A journey at the Bartlett . By. Khaled ElAshry [email protected] [email protected] DongHan Shin [email protected] Msc AAC Students at the Bartlett school of architecture UCL 2012/2013 under supervision of Ruairi Glynn #thinkingrobotics

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Onix grasshopper plugin time have Ended , the plugin is going to be developed and distributed under the new platform Scorpion

http://scorpion-robotics.com/

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Onix i s an open source robotic controller for universal robots currently in beta. Right now onix can generate URscript programs for universal robots using it's inverse kinematic solver with the ability to stream directly to the multiple robots at once.

The set of tools includes Inverse kinematic solver for the non spherical wrist UR10 robots, end effectors and I/O tools, program generation and program streaming components. All the tools are open source under the creative common licence.Feel free to edit update and improve the codes and clusters and share it with others.

The tool was created during the AAC "adaptive architecture and computation 2012/2013" course Thesis , Bartlett school of architecture, UCL, London.

Acknowledgment:

Prof Sen Hanna, Ruairi Glynn,  DongHan Shin and the bartlett CADCAM team.

additional features in development:

Feedback representation of the robots during operation.

additional inverse kinematic tools for more accuracy

the rebuild of the clusters in VB for faster performance and easier installation. 

The tool rely on python, please install the GHPhython plugin before using Onix

to install just copy the set of  clusters in onix.rar to your user objects folder (usually C:\Users\Khaled\AppData\Roaming\Grasshopper\UserObjects). use the example file as a start

The tools are open source and can be directly accessed as clusters from grasshopper. 

Grasshopper group

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/onix

Download files and example

https://app.box.com/s/y4fcbthab8to2wcv692i

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Soon to be released , ONIX Universal robots controller

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2 layers of bricks 

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URcontroller is a new platform to control the Universal robots UR10s in grasshopper including inverse kinematics solver, end effectors I/O tools and real-time up-loader, currently at beta 3.

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mathematics and grabber today 

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OpenCV 101

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Back to basics , detecting blocks 

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The replicator

replicates a surface scanned by kinect

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My new best friend

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Thinking Robotics

For years robots were used in the industrial field in manufacturing and fabrication but at the same time they weren't used up to there true potentials  In this Project we Try to Rethink how industrial robot behave. We Try to combine Robotics , computer vision and AI to achieve a more adaptable behavior from a robot. Making it more versatile .