The Altair Robot Chronicles

Toymaker

United Kingdom
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This is the first in a series of videos showing the current capabilities of the ALTAIR EZ:1 robot.

Part:1 Pour and serve a drink

Tony

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USA
#17  

Hahahha...oh well we have Obama care...oh wait.........:D

United Kingdom
#18  

@Tony Great work, very impressive!

PRO
United Kingdom
#19  

Thanks, everyone for the kind words and encouragement!

Steve, the HVC-P2 can analyse faces from up to 3.2m (10.5 feet) away.

DJ, I have a few more videos in the pipeline showing various things and will keep filming while there is interest. I have not changed over to Cortana yet, strangely I am finding that the regular MS speech recognition seems to be working much better these days.

Will, I can recommend the HVC-P2 which actually has 10 vision functions these are:- 1) Face Detection, 2) Human Body Detection, 3) Gender Estimation, 4) Age Estimation, 5) Gaze Estimation, 6) Facial Pose Estimation, 7) Face Recognition, 8) Expression Estimation (satisfied, unsatisfied, five different expressions: happiness, surprise, anger, sadness and neutral), 9) Hand Detection, 10) Blink Estimation.

I do some pre-processing before the vision data goes to the v4, this saves valuable processing time on the v4 for other things - with a dedicated PIC I can do stuff like stabilizing the data, for example the age algorithm can jump a bit from one scan to another, so I use a median filter to lose the spurious age outputs and make it all settle down to an accurate age estimation. The PIC then decides if the latest scan data has anything new and if so packets it all up for a single send to the v4.

I know the P2 is expensive, but you get a lot of human vision processing for the money!

Tony

United Kingdom
#20  

Tony, where do you buy the HVC-P2 in the UK, the only supplier I can see in the UK is Mouser and needs to be pre-ordered?

Cheers Chris.

PRO
United Kingdom
#21  

Chris, I originally bought from them from the States, but I got the last two from Anglia Components

www.anglia-live.com/

Not sure if you will have to open an account with them before they will supply?

Tony

United Kingdom
#22  

Thanks, I'll have a look.

Cheers Chris.

#23  

Thanks, Tony , I enjoyed that video. :-)

PRO
United Kingdom
#24  

Thanks Mel! its good to see you back on the forum.

Tony