The authors present a stereo vision system in which they attempt to achieve robustness with respect to scene characteristics, from textured outdoor scenes to environments composed of highly regular man-made objects. T...
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The authors present a stereo vision system in which they attempt to achieve robustness with respect to scene characteristics, from textured outdoor scenes to environments composed of highly regular man-made objects. The system offers the advantages of both area-based (dense map) and feature-based (accurate disparity) processing by combining them whenever possible. The authors are able to geneate a disparity map that is sufficiently accurate to allow them to detect depth and surface orientation discontinuities, provided that the resolution is fine enough. They use an area-based cross-correlation, along with an ordering constraint and a weak surface smoothness assumption to produce an initial disparity map. Unlike other approaches, however, a match is accepted only if both views agree on a correlation peak and this peak is strong enough. This disparity map is a blurred version of the true one, however, because of the smoothing inherent in the correlation. The problem is most acute at C/sub 0/ (depth) and C/sub 1/ (crease) discontinuities but can be mitigated by introducing the edge information: the disparity map is adaptively smoothed subject to the constraint that the disparity at edges is fixed.< >
The authors discuss some of the issues that have to be tackled in order to perform geometric reasoning from range imagery. They begin by pointing out that a successful system must deal with real-world data, and theref...
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The authors discuss some of the issues that have to be tackled in order to perform geometric reasoning from range imagery. They begin by pointing out that a successful system must deal with real-world data, and therefore take into account the effects of noise and quantization. They suggest that adaptive smoothing may prove to be a helpful tool for such a task. The next stage of processing involves a symbolic representation of the original data. The authors spell out criteria for shape description, discuss current representation schemes and point out their limitations, and then propose some ideas for overcoming such limitations, illustrated on real examples. Finally, they look at the issues in recognition, and more specifically the matching part, with reference to different methodologies, tree search and constraint satisfaction network.< >
The authors present a method to smooth a signal-whether it is an intensity image, a range image, or a contour-which preserves discontinuities and thus facilitates their detection. This is achieved by repeatedly convol...
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The authors present a method to smooth a signal-whether it is an intensity image, a range image, or a contour-which preserves discontinuities and thus facilitates their detection. This is achieved by repeatedly convolving the signal with a very small averaging filter modulated by a measure of the signal discontinuity at each point. This process is related to the anisotropic diffusion reported by P. Perona and J. Malik (1987) but it has a much simpler formulation and is not subject to instability or divergence. Real examples show how this approach can be applied to the smoothing of various types of signals. The detected features do not move, and thus no tracking is needed. The last property makes it possible to derive a novel scale-space representation of a signal using a small number of scales. Finally, this process is easily implemented on parallel architectures: the running time on a 16 K connection machine is three orders of magnitude faster than on a serial machine.< >
A robotic system that can visually track and intercept an arbitrary object which is traveling in 2‐D at an unknown velocity on a conveyor is to be presented. An eye‐in‐hand vision system developed by the robotics a...
It is suggested that the disparity between the knowledge and background of the individuals who develop software and those who use the developed software should be filled during the requirements engineering process thr...
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It is suggested that the disparity between the knowledge and background of the individuals who develop software and those who use the developed software should be filled during the requirements engineering process through the use of appropriate techniques and software tools that incorporate a conceptual model of the area of application. The authors describe an experimental requirements engineering environment that has been created to support the rapid prototyping of real-time systems and provides tools for the description of the objects that participate in the conceptual model of a real-time application. Objects have visual representations that resemble their appearance in real life. Animation capabilities support the validation of system behavior by end-users through an interactive, direct-manipulation simulator.< >
This paper proposes two simple schemes for adaptive control of robot manipulator, to achieve trajectory tracking. The state feedback controller consists of feedforward from the reference position trajectory, feedback ...
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This paper proposes two simple schemes for adaptive control of robot manipulator, to achieve trajectory tracking. The state feedback controller consists of feedforward from the reference position trajectory, feedback from the actual trajectory, and an auxiliary input. The feedforward/feedback controller is different from the state feedback controller in that it consists of feedforward from the reference position, velocity, and acceleration trajectory based on “inverse” dynamics of robot manipulator. The feedforward and feedback gains and the auxiliary input are adapted using adaptive control theory based on Lyapunov's direct method, and using only the local information of the corresponding joint. The proposed control schemes are computationally fast and do not require a priori knowledge of the parameter of the manipulator or the payload. Simulation results are presented in support of the proposed schemes.
While it may not be practical to realize a tentative robot design as an actual robot, there is no question of the practicality of a simulation, ROBOT_S is a program in which the foundation for a comprehensive simulati...
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The use of multisensor integration and fusion enables a multisensor-based mobile robot to operate in uncertain or unknown dynamic environments. After first distinguishing between multisensor integration and the more r...
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A flexible robotic system with intelligent sensory capability which can be used in an industrial environment to autonomously perform sophisticated manufacturing tasks that are typically done by manual labor is present...
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