A motion estimation system

The ability to navigate intelligently among dynamic obstacles is critical for autonomous vehicles though the majority of navigation and sensing systems are not explicitly designed for dynamic environments. In our work we consider the design of sensing system that is able to extract useful motion information using a combination of range and visual data. The generated information is analogous to the information generated by the short-range process of biological visual systems. In this paper we give an outline of our motion estimation algorithm, present preliminary simulation results and describe a hardware implementation of this algorithm.