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The work explores coupling an affordable motion tracking system (HTC Vive Lighthouse and Trackers) with a collaborative robotic arm (Universal Robot UR 5) in order to machine workpieces a few times larger than the robotic workspace itself. The aim of that project is to demonstrate that such coupling would allow a human operator to manually push the workpiece through the robotic workspace without the need of additional numerically controlled motion axes.
In the test scenario, full scale architectural columns are cut with a hot-wire effector out of extruded polystyrene foam (XPS) blocks. The paper lays out the workflow of an integrated design-fabrication process and discusses its use for crafts based robotic practice.
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Becker, M., Sardenberg, V., Schacht, M. (2020). Extending the Robotic Workspace by Motion Tracking Large Workpieces. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M. (eds) HCI International 2020 - Posters. HCII 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1225. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50729-9_21
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