• DocumentCode
    1258776
  • Title

    Real-time road edge following for mobile robot navigation

  • Author

    Lotufo, R.A. ; Morgan, A.D. ; Dagless, E.L. ; Milford, D.J. ; Morrissey, J.E. ; Thomas, B.T.

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. Eng., Bristol Univ., UK
  • Volume
    2
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1990
  • fDate
    2/1/1990 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    35
  • Lastpage
    40
  • Abstract
    The authors describe the ongoing research at the University of Bristol to explore mobile robot road-following algorithms and suitable hardware architectures to run these algorithms. The prototype hardware, designed and built at the University, is a real-time frame grabber system based on transputers. Two approaches to real-time road edge following that have been tested to guide a small tracked vehicle around the paths of the University gardens are described
  • Keywords
    computer architecture; computer vision; computerised navigation; mobile robots; position control; real-time systems; transputers; University of Bristol; computer vision; hardware architectures; mobile robot navigation; mobile robot road-following algorithms; position control; real-time frame grabber system; real-time road edge following; small tracked vehicle; transputers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics & Communication Engineering Journal
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0954-0695
  • Type

    jour

  • Filename
    80014