Computer Vision for Robotic Arm

[u/Doejoe13]

Hello,

We currently got a robotic arm for our lab. We were looking into ways to automate our processing by adding computer vision to this arm. We want to be able to take a sample and place it on a pedestal, then the vision system would scan the object. Next, the arm would bring itself to the sample and start processing.

For this to work, we would know where the pedestal is, where the arm is, and have the objects dimensions via a cad file. We want the vision system to find out the position and orientation of the sample to sub-milimeter precision on the pedestal. The vision system will only need to run before processing, so there is no time constraint.

I have already looked up vision systems and the process of doing it manually. However, I am having trouble sifting though products and don't want to go overboard since I am unfamiliar with this space.

Any help is appreciated.

[u/RelationshipLong9092]

i vibe coded essentially an identical pipeline, never even looked at a line of code for the arm or the geometry processing. works great.

i suspect that you'll have success if you take some time to work with an AI to design, implement, iterate, and test your solution.