An experimental facility for robotic visual servoing

Using sensors, a robot can manipulate objects with unknown position and velocity. Recent advances in machine vision raise the possibility of using vision to close a feedback loop around the robot end-effector´s position and orientation, an approach known as visual servoing. An experimental facility for research into video-rate robotic visual servoing is discussed. The application of image features to control a robot´s planar position with respect to some object is shown