Design and Implementation of an Embedded Image Capture Device for Mobile Robots

Considering of solving the bottleneck problem of computing ability, power consumption, size and weight of mobile robot with image acquisition ability, a compact and embedded image capture device based on ARM and CMOS image sensor is developed in this paper. Its hardware structure, software design and some key image preprocessing programs are also described in detail. Experiments show that it can not only capture image with high speed and good quality, but can also process images efficiently using different algorithms to meet the image capturing and processing requirements of mobile robots.