Robot control in nonlinear and nonstationary run-time environments presents challenges to traditional software methodologies. In particular, robot systems in "open" domains can only be modeled probabilistica...
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In this paper, we present a camera calibration method using two views of three pairs of concentric circles with known sizes. A new invariant property for circle is introduced to determine the position of the center of...
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In this paper, we present a camera calibration method using two views of three pairs of concentric circles with known sizes. A new invariant property for circle is introduced to determine the position of the center of the projected circle. Given two image ellipses and their corresponding centers, a cross-ratio based method estimates the center of projected circles using the new invariant property. The accurate center of projected concentric circles provides correct correspondences between ellipses in the image plane and circles in 3D plane. We also demonstrate that two views of three pairs of coplanar concentric circles are enough to determine the intrinsic camera parameters, such as the focal length, the aspect ratio, and the principal point. We validate the performance of the method using both synthetic and real images. Our method shows a comparable performance with respect to similar calibration methods using planes. The use of concentric circles, however, provides correct correspondences between 3D target points and their image points, and greatly simplifies the calibration problem.
Using software OS, real-time operation is constrained by acquisition and preprocessing tasks of input signals. In this way, this paper presents an implementation of a real time target tracking behaviour, from snapped ...
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Using software OS, real-time operation is constrained by acquisition and preprocessing tasks of input signals. In this way, this paper presents an implementation of a real time target tracking behaviour, from snapped images of the environment, as an example of how to take advantage of real-time hardware devices as a helpful systems for control architectures. A specific board based on FPGA/DSP processors has been used in order to reach this goal. The system has been thought for a marine and underwater environment and it has been tested using GARBI autonomous underwater vehicle. The implemented behaviours allow the robot to navigate autonomously and follow a diver.
This work addresses the issue of the lateral control of an outdoor robotic airship while following a predefined path using visual servoing techniques. The vision-based control application is based on an interaction ma...
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This work addresses the issue of the lateral control of an outdoor robotic airship while following a predefined path using visual servoing techniques. The vision-based control application is based on an interaction matrix related to line features extracted from an on-board camera as feedback signals. An output LQR controller for the visual servo control is designed using the lateral dynamic model of the airship. The proposed approach is validated using a realistic simulator of the AS-800 unmanned airship.
This work presents an application intended to work as a second reader in Radiology Services for digital mammograms, which makes use of several computervision algorithms. Although the presented prototype basically foc...
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Presents a method whereby an autonomous mobile robot automatically selects the most informative data from a set of images acquired a priori, using a statistical method termed information sampling. These data could be ...
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Presents a method whereby an autonomous mobile robot automatically selects the most informative data from a set of images acquired a priori, using a statistical method termed information sampling. These data could be a single pixel or a number scattered throughout an image. This information is then used to build a topological map of the environment. Our sole input data are omnidirectional images obtained from a catadioptric panoramic camera. Experimental results show that by using only the best data the topological position of a robot, visually maneuvering through a simple indoor environment, can easily be determined.
The Object Oriented Control Architecture for Autonomy (O 2 CA 2 ) is a control architecture being developed at the University of Girona for the GARBI underwater vehicle. Conceived as a hybrid, it is organised in three...
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The Object Oriented Control Architecture for Autonomy (O 2 CA 2 ) is a control architecture being developed at the University of Girona for the GARBI underwater vehicle. Conceived as a hybrid, it is organised in three layers (Deliberative, Control Execution and Reactive) merging the deliberation mechanisms of planning with reactive behaviours in charge of controlling the robot. The aim of this paper is to provide an overall description of the whole architecture and an in depth description of the Reactive-layer. The concepts of the architecture have been tested with the simulation of a simple mission consisting of navigating through a sequence of way-points while avoiding contact with obstacles.
Mosaics have been commonly used as visual maps for undersea exploration and navigation. The position and orientation of an underwater vehicle can be calculated by integrating the apparent motion of the images which fo...
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(纸本)0780365763
Mosaics have been commonly used as visual maps for undersea exploration and navigation. The position and orientation of an underwater vehicle can be calculated by integrating the apparent motion of the images which form the mosaic. A feature-based mosaicking method is proposed in this paper. The creation of the mosaic is accomplished in four stages: feature selection and matching, detection of points describing the dominant motion, homography computation and mosaic construction. In this work we demonstrate that the use of color and textures as discriminative properties of the image can improve, to a large extent, the accuracy of the constructed mosaic. The system is able to provide 3D metric information concerning the vehicle motion using the knowledge of the intrinsic parameters of the camera while integrating the measurements of an ultrasonic sensor. The experimental results of real images have been tested on the GARBI underwater vehicle.
In this paper a new "range-space" approach, for rendering visual models using a network of multiple omnidirectional vision sensors (ODVS) is presented. This integrated approach allows for simultaneous extrac...
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(纸本)0769513271
In this paper a new "range-space" approach, for rendering visual models using a network of multiple omnidirectional vision sensors (ODVS) is presented. This integrated approach allows for simultaneous extraction of 3-D range as well as visual models. The approach requires three distinct steps of analyzing multiple ODVS video input streams: 1) Search, 2) Match, and 3) Render. At the output, a user-specified view is rendered. This three-step process does not require 3D model of the scene to be provided.
The utilization of the vision as a feedback sensor in closed-loop control schemes is of great interest, mainly due to the high density of information revealed by images. In this work, we present a method to perform ro...
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The utilization of the vision as a feedback sensor in closed-loop control schemes is of great interest, mainly due to the high density of information revealed by images. In this work, we present a method to perform road following tracking by aerial unmanned vehicles (AUV) based on visual input. Difficulties arise from the nonholonomic constraints of the AUV moving in 3D. The problems are overcome using a visual servoing approach based on an interaction matrix. Simulation results validating the strategy are shown.
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