Vision guided mobile platform for outdoor use in unstructured environment

This paper presents a mobile robot system with vision based teleoperation for the use in unstructured outdoor environment. Our system makes use of a camera-laser combined sensor system, which gives suitable information for the operator in such unstructured environments with homogenous reflection, as the surface of the frozen Lake Balaton. The role of the human vision is essential in visual guided teleoperation. A comprehensive overview of the human´s 3D sensing, and the role of the different vision cues is introduced. The need for the combined 2D-3D vision, our approach for that and the first experimental results in teleoperation are presented.