This paper presents a simple and effective model identification method for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV). The complete process, with 3 different phases, is firstly described and successively applied to the underw...
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This paper presents a simple and effective model identification method for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV). The complete process, with 3 different phases, is firstly described and successively applied to the underwater robot GARBI. The identification is aimed at uncoupling the different degrees of freedom (DOF) in low-speed vehicles, and is based completely on low-cost sensors. Least square techniques are used to estimate the UUV dynamics parameters. Experiments in the laboratory and in a real underwater environment were carried out. Numerical and graphical results of the GARBI identification process are included.
When underwater vehicles navigate close to the ocean floor, computervision techniques can be applied to obtain motion estimates. A complete system to create visual mosaics of the seabed is described in this paper. Un...
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When underwater vehicles navigate close to the ocean floor, computervision techniques can be applied to obtain motion estimates. A complete system to create visual mosaics of the seabed is described in this paper. Unfortunately, the accuracy of the constructed mosaic is difficult to evaluate. The use of a laboratory setup to obtain an accurate error measurement is proposed. The system consists on a robot arm carrying a downward looking camera. A pattern formed by a white background and a matrix of black dots uniformly distributed along the surveyed scene is used to find the exact image registration parameters. When the robot executes a trajectory (simulating the motion of a submersible), an image sequence is acquired by the camera. The estimated motion computed from the encoders of the robot is refined by detecting, to subpixel accuracy, the black dots of the image sequence, and computing the 2D projective transform which relates two consecutive images. The pattern is then substituted by a poster of the sea floor and the trajectory is executed again, acquiring the image sequence used to test the accuracy of the mosaicking system.
When underwater vehicles perform navigation close to the ocean floor, computervision techniques can be applied to obtain quite accurate motion estimates. The most crucial step in the vision-based estimation of the ve...
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When underwater vehicles perform navigation close to the ocean floor, computervision techniques can be applied to obtain quite accurate motion estimates. The most crucial step in the vision-based estimation of the vehicle motion consists on detecting matchings between image pairs. Here we propose the extensive use of texture analysis as a tool to ameliorate the correspondence problem in underwater images. Once a robust set of correspondences has been found, the three-dimensional motion of the vehicle can be computed with respect to the bed of the sea. Finally, motion estimates allow the construction of a map that could aid to the navigation of the robot.
This paper presents an approach to ameliorate the reliability of the correspondence points relating two consecutive images of a sequence. The images are especially difficult to handle, since they have been acquired by...
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This paper presents an approach to ameliorate the reliability of the correspondence points relating two consecutive images of a sequence. The images are especially difficult to handle, since they have been acquired by a camera looking at the sea floor while carried by an underwater robot. Underwater images are usually difficult to process due to light absorption, changing image radiance and lack of well-defined features. A new approach based on gray-level region matching and selective texture analysis significantly improves the matching reliability.
In this work a tissue aspiration method for the in-vivo determination of biological soft tissue material parameters is presented. An explicit axisymmetric finite element simulation of the aspiration experiment is used...
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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 ...
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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 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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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.
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