Robotics & autonomyProject record · Sep 2026

Robotics & Autonomous Driving

UR3 manipulation & vision labs

Course exercises for a UR3 arm: recursive Tower of Hanoi planning, suction and motion coordination, plus an unfinished vision-based block-manipulation extension.

PythonROSUR3OpenCVKinematics
Why it sits here. Meaningful learning artifact with implementation, but unfinished subcomponents and weaker attribution require lower emphasis.
01 / An open road. A closed loop.STUDY IN SPACE

01 / IMPLEMENTATION & CONTRIBUTION

What the work involves

Student-code implementations add recursive three-block planning, state-dependent pickup and placement heights, suction feedback, colored-block detection, and image-to-world transforms to supplied course scaffolding.

Technical depth

ROS command/feedback loops; recursive task planning; arm and vacuum control; calibrated coordinate transforms; morphological cleanup and blob filtering for colored blocks.

The project family

uiuc/ece470

02 / RESULTS

What came out of it

The Hanoi implementation combines a recursive planner with calibrated arm positions. The vision extension includes blob extraction but still needs its kinematics and calibration/goal placeholders completed.

03 / SUPPORTING EVIDENCE

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Implementation notes, project records, and supporting artifacts.

Source context & project scope

No physical execution success or author-by-line provenance verified.

Lab5 Get_MS returns identity/zero scaffolding and inverse kinematics is unimplemented; do not present it as completed vision pick-and-place.

Course drivers and starter code are upstream.

Recursive three-block planning, gripper sensing, arm movement and stateful block transfer.

SOURCE · 2026-09-17

Implemented HSV filtering, morphological cleanup, blob criteria and coordinate conversion; calibration remains placeholder.

SOURCE · 2026-09-17

Unimplemented forward/inverse-kinematics sections identify the current boundary.

SOURCE · 2026-09-17

Pick/place orchestration with empty calibrated goal lists.

SOURCE · 2026-09-17
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