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Robotic Arm Videos

In spring 2009 I worked on contract project to build prototype software to plug in an electric vehicle charging connector into the socket on the vehicle.  The hardware consisted of a 3-DOF robotic arm with a mid-range Logitech web camera mounted on the end effector.  The algorithm scanned the camera image for a high-visibility target of known shape and size, computed the 3-d position in space relative to the end-effector and the inverse-kinematics to perform the plug-in action.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2LAwxoQeIZiMTIwQjEwNTRFMjlDMkY2OTowLjM/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2LAwxoQeIZiMTIwQjEwNTRFMjlDMkY2OTowLjI/view?usp=sharing

 

 

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US Patent – System and method for detecting vehicle proximity in an electrical vehicle supply equipment

US9440549B2 – System and method for detecting vehicle proximity in an electrical vehicle supply equipment – Google Patents

A system and method is provided for detecting vehicle proximity in an electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE). A sensor may be configured to detect a presence of a vehicle within a predetermined distance of the EVSE. A processor may be configured to determine that the vehicle is in proximity of the EVSE in response to the sensor detecting the presence of the vehicle.

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US Patent: System and Method for Remote Payment for an Electric Vehicle Charging Station

US20140164196A1 – System and Method for Remote Payment for an Electric Vehicle Charging Station – Google Patents

A system and method is provided for billing transactions associated with an electric vehicle charging station (EVCS). A server may receive a station identifier associated with the EVCS from a computing device. The station identifier may be retrieved by decoding a code at the computing device.

During my tenure at SemaConnect, I’ve contributed to a number of patent applications, a few of which have been granted.

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Acknowledgement

A shout out to Nicolas Pinto for the acknowledgement for some contract work I did back in 2009.   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2775908/

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Canesta 3-d imaging camera contest award.

Of note

Amy D. Waterman, Ph.D., Gerhild Williams, Ph.D., Paul S.G. Stein, Ph.D., John Heil, Ph.D., Chengjie Xiong, Ph.D., and more…

Relevant excerpt:

Roman Stanchak and Michael Dixon, graduate students working with Robert Pless, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, in the Media and Machines laboratory, each received a Canesta 3-D imaging camera for their research paper as part of a national contest. Each camera is worth $7,500. …