http://vimeo.com/43455552
This is stunning. I've so much respect for people so young drawing so much know-how and expertise together into one team. Brilliant video
Modern robotics hits Hollywood. IRIS: The most advanced camera rig ever created.
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#22http://vimeo.com/43455552
This is stunning. I've so much respect for people so young drawing so much know-how and expertise together into one team. Brilliant video
I think one of the comments on that video sums it up nicely:
"I'm pretty sure this is the closest my eyes have come to having sex. That. was. AMAZING!"
Re: Modern robotics hits Hollywood. IRIS: The most advanced camera rig ever created.
#23Here some action: http://www.botndolly.com/media#/medium/15 I think it's very scary standing next to a moving robot that close. It doesn't stop when you get in the way. Hope someone is holding a emergency stop button.
If you've got the right sensors, any unexpected resistance could be used as a trigger to stop motion faster than any human could do it. The SawStop system does it with electrical conductivity, but feedback from servos will do as well.
They have envelope protection, in software, so if you tell the controls the size and shape of the camera and the surrounding objects they wont drive the camera through the floor whatever path you program in.
But they don't have proximity sensors - like the saw capacitance sensor. It just doesn't work in the real world with large objects and longer distances.
You have to rely on the actors staying on their marks if you want to do a very close approach.
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#24Did anyone check out the Kungfu demo? Is that Keanu Reeves?
Looks like he's gone full-on sad Keanu. Which is too bad, I'd be a lot happier if I had one of those cameras. That thing has some really incredible reach. I wonder how it's controlled and how they make sure it doesn't collide with the actors?
They likely don't make sure it doesn't collide with anyone. There MAY be some local safety systems in place, like virtual light curtains and exclusion zones...
Re: Modern robotics hits Hollywood. IRIS: The most advanced camera rig ever created.
#25Here some action: http://www.botndolly.com/media#/medium/15 I think it's very scary standing next to a moving robot that close. It doesn't stop when you get in the way. Hope someone is holding a emergency stop button.
If you've got the right sensors, any unexpected resistance could be used as a trigger to stop motion faster than any human could do it. The SawStop system does it with electrical conductivity, but feedback from servos will do as well.
This still imparts quite a bit of force to someone, potentially killing them.
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#26I wrote a few comments earlier about this device, but I thought I'd try and sum up my thoughts on it in one post.
This is terribly dangerous. Thus far, they've been lucky - nobody has done something wrong or stupid. That said, it cannot last. Putting industrial robots like this on a moving track, and then putting them close to humans at high speed is a recipe for disaster. This system has a 6 meter by track length operating envelope and moves over 4 meters per second. It also has control over 110kg of material - putting its weight in the 2000kg range (minus the track).
There are safety systems available, but none that are commercialized that will allow humans and robots like this to exist in incredibly close proximity with any expectation of safety. Some of the recent research we completed at Carnegie Mellon points to a future where this is possible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Xc4yq-rz0
But we're not there yet.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks like he's gone full-on sad Keanu. Which is too bad, I'd be a lot happier if I had one of those cameras. That thing has some really incredible reach. I wonder how it's controlled and how they make sure it doesn't collide with the actors?
They likely don't make sure it doesn't collide with anyone. There MAY be some local safety systems in place, like virtual light curtains and exclusion zones...
If you're filming a kung foo scene, you're already very careful to not collide with who you're "fighting". I don't see how this would be any different other than the robot is perfect and your opposing actor is not.
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#28This is nothing new. Special effects companies have been using MOCO rigs (Motion Control) for decades.
I worked on some of this hardware many moons ago. One such rig was a cartesian robot the size of an entire warehouse. It was used to fly a camera over (and through) a miniature mockup of a city. The rig had XYZ axis that were measured in tens of feet and the end-effector (where the camera was mounted) had various rotation and translation capabilities as well as computer control of focus and other camera functions.
I was also on set for some software tests of a rig used on an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. It was impressive to see this rig programmatically approach the actor at high speed on a rail system while the camera was going through various programmed motions. The thing was easily over 500lbs. They had massive stop blocks at the end of the track prevent a run-away condition and protect the actors.
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#29This, mixed with drones with cameras like the ones used here: http://vimeo.com/36341233 makes some pretty exciting cinematography possible
Nice. You can see the wash from the propeller(s) at 1:33 among other places. The choice of concrete surfaces was smart.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
They likely don't make sure it doesn't collide with anyone. There MAY be some local safety systems in place, like virtual light curtains and exclusion zones...
If you're filming a kung foo scene, you're already very careful to not collide with who you're "fighting". I don't see how this would be any different other than the robot is perfect and your opposing actor is not.
Your opposing human actor is not 2000kg and moving at 4+ m/s...