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Knowledge-Based Vision-Guided Robots

By Dr. Nick Barnes , Professor Zhi-Qiang Liu (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
Year
2002
ISBN
978-3-662-00312-1, 978-3-7908-1780-5
DOI
10.1007/978-3-7908-1780-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8632687 bytes)
Series
Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing 103
Edition
1
Pages
212\239
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); ComputerPattern Recognition and Graphics; Image ProcessingVision

Description

Many robotics researchers consider high-level vision algorithms (computational) too expensive for use in robot guidance. This book introduces the reader to an alternative approach to perception for autonomous, mobile robots. It explores how to apply methods of high-level computer vision and fuzzy logic to the guidance and control of the mobile robot. The book introduces a knowledge-based approach to vision modeling for robot guidance, where advantage is taken of constraints of the robot's physical structure, the tasks it performs, and the environments it works in. This facilitates high-level computer vision algorithms such as object recognition at a speed that is sufficient for real-time navigation. The texts presents algorithms that exploit these constraints at all levels of vision, from image processing to model construction and matching, as well as shape recovery. These algorithms are demonstrated in the navigation of a wheeled mobile robot.

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