Shortest Path Prototype – Paul Foam Knife Group

Our group’s plan moving forward was to get a MOCAP of Paul working with the hot knife, editing and reproducing his stroke pattern through Rhino, and having the robot replicate his dextrous skill in carving out a completely different drawing. We’ve made significant progress towards that end. Paul appeared to have an easy time transferring
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Hacksaw

In this exercise, the tool we chose was a Hacksaw which requires a human to push and pull the handle of the hacksaw while the blade scrapes against a wooden stud. Our process is as follows: Place the markers on a visible area on the tool so that the MotionCapture Cameras can detect the markers.
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