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Scheinman arm #1991

Open larsbrinkhoff opened 3 years ago

larsbrinkhoff commented 3 years ago

MAB; ARM INFO
MAB; ARM 48
MAB; ARM FASL
MAB; ARM11 13
DY; VICARM 15
ARMGEO; VICARM B3D

Code to control the Scheinman arm connected to the Mini-Robot PDP-11/45. ARM is Maclisp code, which talks to ARM11 running on the PDP-11.

larsbrinkhoff commented 3 years ago

Documentation in AI WP 166, section 5.

larsbrinkhoff commented 3 years ago

The hardware device was attached to the Mini-Robot PDP-11/45, see #1990.

larsbrinkhoff commented 3 years ago

Picture from AI memo 365 vicarm

larsbrinkhoff commented 3 years ago

Photo from Wikipedia. vicarm2

larsbrinkhoff commented 3 years ago

Victor Scheinman oral history.

https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Victor_Scheinman

larsbrinkhoff commented 3 years ago

AI working paper 69, "Kinematics of the MIT-AI-Vicarm Manipulator", May 1974.

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/41104/AI_WP_069.pdf

larsbrinkhoff commented 8 months ago

Source: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102803903 vicarm