• DocumentCode
    2491109
  • Title

    Navigation using a spherical camera

  • Author

    Arora, Raman ; Parthasarathy, Harish

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. Of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    8-11 Dec. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    A novel group theoretical method is proposed for autonomous navigation based on a spherical image camera. The environment of a robot is captured on a sphere. The three dimensional scenes at two different points in the space are related by a transformation from the special Euclidean motion group which is the semi-direct product of the rotation and the translation groups. The motion of the robot is recovered by iteratively estimating the rotation and the translation in an expectation-maximization fashion.
  • Keywords
    control engineering computing; expectation-maximisation algorithm; image sensors; path planning; robot vision; Euclidean motion; autonomous navigation; expectation-maximization fashion; iterative approach; robot vision; spherical image camera; three dimensional scenes; Cameras; Layout; Matched filters; Medical robotics; Navigation; Orbital robotics; Robot kinematics; Robot vision systems; Robotics and automation; Space technology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Pattern Recognition, 2008. ICPR 2008. 19th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Tampa, FL
  • ISSN
    1051-4651
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2174-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1051-4651
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICPR.2008.4761897
  • Filename
    4761897