Real-Time Robot Arm Simulation with Arduino and OpenUSD

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Join a group of students and the director at NJIT's COMET Center demonstrate their robot arm simulation in Omniverse! From the team: "We are developing a digital twin of our work environment in Omniverse and within this we have a robot arm that will go into this environment and be controlled via arduino and integrated into Omniverse. The robot works by having a controller that is set up through an arduino. This controller is a small version of the robot arm. The controller controls the robot arm and sends its current information to the digital twin, the robot arm and digital twin then move accordingly to the information being read by the controller. In order for the digital twin to work, it must read the controller data using arduino and then map it into Omniverse using behavior scripts to seamlessly integrate the external movement with the Omniverse movement making it a Digital Twin." 

COMET is part of the NJ Innovation Institute (an New Jersey Institute of Technology corp) and described as "20k sqft advanced manufacturing workforce development center, where the industry can showcase leading equipment and access a trained and vetted technical workforce." Check out the site here: https://www.njii.com/comet-project/

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