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An intelligent space for mobile robot navigation with on-line calibrated vision sensors

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Abstract

This paper presents a seemingly novel approach to accomplishing mobile robot localization and navigation in a large unknown workspace with a set of vision sensors based on an effective on-line calibration strategy. Each adjacent IP camera pair for visual sensing is assumed to have an overlapping field of view, but the positions as well as orientations with respect to either the Cartesian space or the mobile robot are unknown. The idea is to control the mobile robot to actively perform calibration with any stationary IP camera that can observe the five preselected color-coded features onboard the mobile robot, and thus establish coordinate transformations among these IP cameras. In particular, the coordinate transformation from the mobile robot to the IP camera is recursived updated based on all observed data and the kinematic model of the mobile robot. The proposed system only requires a PC and a network of stationary IP cameras without performing off-line calibration. Therefore, the proposed approach appears to be low-cost, effective, efficient, and flexible.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication11th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2010
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1452-1457
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781424478132
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010

Publication series

Name11th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2010

Keywords

  • Intelligent space
  • Mobile robot
  • On-line calibration
  • Robot navigation
  • Visual servoing

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