Fast object location and tracing using two CCD cameras and laser range finder

Author

Pang, Yunting ; Huang, Qiang ; Quan, Xiaolei ; Zheng, Juan ; Wu, Xiaobing

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mechatronic Eng., Beijing Inst. of Technol., China

fYear

2005

fDate

27 June-3 July 2005

Abstract

Locating and tracing a moving object rapidly is an important capability for a robot. This paper proposes a method for fast object location and tracing using two CCD cameras and laser range finder which can get the information of position of an object rapidly and trace the moving object in real time. The two CCD and the laser are mounted on a 2-DOF robot head and the computer system consists of two computers and a Memolink communication. The segmentation is done by using the offline threshold of the local color image of the object. The laser is used to obtain depth information of the object. The high speed and accuracy of the proposed method is confirmed by experiments.

Keywords

CCD image sensors; humanoid robots; image colour analysis; image motion analysis; laser ranging; object detection; CCD cameras; Memolink communication; color image; computer system; fast object location; laser range finder; robot head; Cameras; Charge coupled devices; Charge-coupled image sensors; Color; Communication system control; Head; Humanoid robots; Image segmentation; Mechatronics; Robot vision systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Acquisition, 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9303-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIA.2005.1635114

Filename

1635114