Improv and EyeBot real-time vision on-board mobile robots

Author

Bräunl, Thomas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Western Australia Univ., Nedlands, WA, Australia

fYear

1997

fDate

23-25 Sep 1997

Firstpage

131

Lastpage

135

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, 1997. Proceedings., Fourth Annual Conference on

Conference_Location

Toowoomba, Qld.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8025-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625307

Filename

625307