http://www.RoboRealm.com/ The newest forum threads. Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:11:00 EST en-us Copyright: (C) RoboRealm, http://www.RoboRealm.com/ http://www.RoboRealm.com/ Tapio,<br><br>I doubt that the vanishing point would be useful in this situation. Bin picking is quite tricky. Ideally you would use a form of shape matching to try to identify the top most part (i.e. a non-occluded part) and target that.<br><br>Perhaps you could include an example picture of what the robot would see and have to work with. That will give us a better idea of what to recommend.<br><br>STeven. http://www.roborealm.com/forum/index.php?thread_id=2650 http://www.roborealm.com/forum/index.php?thread_id=2650 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:11:00 EST Hi All!<br><br>I am looking for a way to control a robotic arm to pick up pieces/uniform objects from a random pile. For example to have the arm sort a pile of matches from table to a box with all striking ends the same way.<br><br>I think the vanishing point could be used to determine the depth/ distance from camera if we compare two sample pictures taken from different,&nbsp;&nbsp;measured distances of the camera.<br><br>Has anyone experimented with this kind of solution?<br><br>I'd appreciate all pointers since my skills in programming are very weak to say the best.<br><br>Rgds,<br>Tapio http://www.roborealm.com/forum/index.php?thread_id=2650 http://www.roborealm.com/forum/index.php?thread_id=2650 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:11:00 EST