Title :
Improv and EyeBot real-time vision on-board mobile robots
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Western Australia Univ., Nedlands, WA, Australia
Abstract :
On-board image processing for mobile robots provides a vast number of application possibilities in both research and practice. We are interested in the development of small, inexpensive mobile robot systems, incorporating on-board real-time vision systems. Currently, vision-based navigation for mobile robots requires either large robot systems, capable of carrying heavy computer systems, tethered systems, or wireless links to a host system, which computes the image data off-line. Our approach consists of the software tool Improv and the hardware/software robot vision module EyeBot. Improv is a PC-based interactive real-time design tool for image processing routines, and EyeBot is an extendable base platform for mobile robots
Keywords :
interactive systems; mobile robots; path planning; real-time systems; robot vision; EyeBot; Improv; extendable base platform; image processing routines; mobile robots; real-time system; robot vision; Application software; Computer vision; Hardware; Image processing; Machine vision; Mobile robots; Navigation; Real time systems; Robot vision systems; Software tools;
Conference_Titel :
Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, 1997. Proceedings., Fourth Annual Conference on
Conference_Location :
Toowoomba, Qld.
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8025-3
DOI :
10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625307
