Title :
Development of visual odometry component by using omni-directional camera
Author :
Yokota, Tadayuki ; Watanabe, Kajiro ; Kobayashi, Kazuyuki ; Kurihara, Yousuke
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Syst. & Control Eng., Hosei Univ., Koganei, Japan
Abstract :
This paper describes a new visual odometry component for a mobile robot operating in an outdoor environment such as Real World Robot Challenge (RWRC), based on omni-directional camera images. The validity of the proposed method is examined by actual experiments using an electric wheelchair based mobile robot.
Keywords :
cameras; distance measurement; electric vehicles; image sensors; mobile robots; robot vision; wheelchairs; electric wheelchair based mobile robot; omnidirectional camera images; outdoor environment; real world robot challenge; visual odometry component development; Cameras; Feature extraction; Mobile robots; Robot vision systems; Trajectory; Visualization; Omni-directional camera; RANSAC; mobile robot;
Conference_Titel :
SICE Annual Conference (SICE), 2011 Proceedings of
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0714-8