Design and implementation of infrared-binocular vision system for robot navigation

Author

Yang, Gao-bo ; Jin, Wei ; Xu, Tie-feng

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Ningbo Univ., Ningbo, China

fYear

2011

fDate

23-25 May 2011

Firstpage

4185

Lastpage

4188

Abstract

An infrared-binocular vision system for robot navigation in all-environments is designed and implemented. The vision system can capture video signal of two infrared cameras from two USB-interfaces by constructing a bridge between DirectShow and OpenCV. Then the number and feature-information of obstacles can be obtained via image preprocessing and segmentation. Finally, off-line calibration is used to estimate parallax in order to extract the size, distance and position information of obstacles. Experimental results indicate the vision system can meet the demands of distance measuring for robot navigation.

Keywords

calibration; infrared imaging; mobile robots; robot vision; video signal processing; DirectShow; OpenCV; USB interfaces; infrared binocular vision system; infrared cameras; offline calibration; robot navigation; video signal; Charge coupled devices; Machine vision; Navigation; Robot vision systems; Universal Serial Bus; Visualization; binocular vision system; distance measuring; infrared-imaging; robot Navigation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control and Decision Conference (CCDC), 2011 Chinese

Conference_Location

Mianyang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8737-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCDC.2011.5968960

Filename

5968960