Video Clips

A collection of video clips demonstrating research, researchers and robots!

1. The Aqua Project Demo Video: Edited and created by yours truly, this is a 2-minute summary video of the Aqua project that was first shown at the Experience Canada media event during the G8/G20 summits of June 2010.
2. Screencast of the application containing the very first generation of visual trackers written for the Aqua 1.0 robot, from late summer, 2004. The application was written in VXL, with VGUI used as the GUI toolkit.
3. Pool-trial video of the Aqua 1.0 robot visually servoing off a pink ball held by a scuba diver.
4. A pool trial video of the very first experiments of the ARTag-operated visual programming language on the Aqua 1.0 platform. April 2006.
5. Robot's-eye-view video showing a scuba diver being tracked by the Fourier tracker. Footage from Barbados, January 2007. Tracking demonstration performed off-line in September 2007.
6. Robot's-eye-view video showing a scuba diver programming the robot. Footage from ocean trials in Barbados, January 26, 2011, around 3 in the afternoon. The video recording task was carried out by the robot after being instructed by the diver using a set of fiducials. The videographer and support diver can also be seen in the clip.
7. A very similar robot's-eye-view video, but taken during bench-testing.. Footage from the dry lab at Bellaris Research in Barbados, January 26, 2011, at 4 in the morning. You can see the flippers beating, and the guy leaning against the wall, watching things happen, would be me.
8. Video showing a scuba diver programming the Aqua 2.0 robot, with the feedback shown on the robot's rear-window OLED screen. Footage from July 2010.
9. A short summary video of the HRI trials on Aqua 2.0, held at the Currie Memorial Pool at McGill. This clip shows the robot getting programmed to perform a sequence of tasks -- one such task of visually tracking a target (without any external control) is demonstrated at the second half of the clip.
10. Clipped version of the above video showing just the tetherless visual tracking.
11. Visual programming of Aqua2 (aka Ramius) as the robot walks in the lower field of the downtown McGill campus on a fine fall day.
12. Another video demonstrating visual programming in walk mode for Aqua2.