DocumentCode
1287716
Title
Vision-based magnetic heading sensor for mobile robot guidance
Author
Ahn, Hyo-Sung
Author_Institution
Dept. of Mechatron., Gwangju Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Gwangju, South Korea
Volume
45
Issue
16
fYear
2009
Firstpage
819
Lastpage
821
Abstract
A simple and intuitive heading direction sensor for mobile robot guidance is reported. The sensor consists of a needle-type analogue magnetic compass, image camera, and digital processing module. The image of a magnetic compass is captured by camera and is processed to compute the direction of a mobile robot.
Keywords
cameras; compasses; magnetic sensors; mobile robots; path planning; robot vision; digital processing module; heading direction sensor; image camera; mobile robot guidance; needle-type analogue magnetic compass; vision-based magnetic heading sensor;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el.2009.1477
Filename
5191337
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