Modelling and Monitoring a Manipulation Environment
Tsutomu Hasegawa · Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers · 1981
The development of high-level manipulator language will cause an explosion of decralations about the real world environment. Procedures may be written in a few lines of statements of higher level language, while world descriptions will still require hundreds of statements. Since the world model is a complex data base describing three-dimensional objects, it is not easy to construct it. This paper describes a system which enables an user to construct objects models interactively. The system provides a laser spot as a measuring tool and a display monitor as a visualizing device of the internal data base and the real world. Using these devices, the user can supervise the process of model construction and check the result very easily.