Title :
Fusion of Perceptions for Perceptual Robotics
Author :
Ciftcioglu, Ö ; Bittermann, M.S. ; Sariyildiz, I.S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Building Technol., Delft Univ. of Technol.
Abstract :
Fusion of perception information for perceptual robotics is described. The visual perception is mathematically modelled as a probabilistic process obtaining and interpreting visual data from an environment. The visual data is processed in a multiresolutional form via wavelet transform and optimally estimated via extended Kalman filtering in each resolution level and the outcomes are fused for each data block. The measurement involves visual perception in the virtual reality which has direct implications prominently in both design and perceptual robotics including navigation issues of actual autonomous robotics. For the interaction with the environment and visual data acquisition, the laser beams approach in robotics is considered and implemented by means of an agent in virtual reality which plays the role of robot in reality
Keywords :
Kalman filters; control engineering computing; data visualisation; mobile robots; nonlinear filters; path planning; robot vision; virtual reality; wavelet transforms; autonomous robotics; extended Kalman filtering; laser beams; navigation issues; perceptual robotics; virtual reality; visual data acquisition; visual perception; wavelet transform; Data acquisition; Filtering; Kalman filters; Laser beams; Mathematical model; Navigation; Robots; Virtual reality; Visual perception; Wavelet transforms;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Information Processing Society, 2006. NAFIPS 2006. Annual meeting of the North American
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0363-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0363-4
DOI :
10.1109/NAFIPS.2006.365462