Title :
Seashore robot for environmental protection and inspection
Author :
Nakamura, Tatsuya ; Tomioka, Takumi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Mie Univ., Tsu, Japan
Abstract :
Contamination of seashore with trash is a serious problem near large cities. Cleaning tasks are hard and tedious for human. To cope with this problem, a seashore robot project has been started. This paper presents the concept of the robot and basic technologies on recognition and simulation
Keywords :
computer vision; environmental engineering; image recognition; mobile robots; environmental inspection; environmental protection; object recognition; robot vision; seashore robot; simulation; Cleaning; Contamination; Discrete Fourier transforms; Frequency; Humans; Inspection; Oceans; Orbital robotics; Protection; Service robots;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Robotics, 1993. Can Robots Contribute to Preventing Environmental Deterioration? Proceedings, 1993 IEEE/Tsukuba International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Tsukuba
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1441-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICAR.1993.337215
