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Vision for Mobile Robots

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Abstract

Mobile robots operate in a wide variety of environments, and the tasks they are being designed to perform vary from the simplest pick-and-place factory jobs to space station construction, maintenance, and repair. Vision systems for mobile robots are used to help locate goal objects or locations, plan paths to the goal, avoid obstacles along the chosen path, monitor the robot’s progress along the path, locate landmarks, recognize objects, compute motion parameters, etc. The vision capability required for any robot depends heavily on its environment and its assigned tasks. A robot that works in a factory picking and placing objects whose geometry, location, and orientation are known and constant may not need any vision capabilities at all. On the other hand, a robot working autonomously in a dynamic 3D environment like space or under water, with possibly unknown objects moving with arbitrary accelerations and rotations, in the presence of humans would need complex visual perception capabilities.

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Bartlett, S.L., Hampapur, A., Huber, M.J., Kortenkamp, D., Moezzi, S., Weymouth, T. (1996). Vision for Mobile Robots. In: Sanz, J.L.C. (eds) Image Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58288-2_1

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