DocumentCode
281520
Title
Image processing transputer-based machine for mobile robot road-following
Author
Lotufo, R.A. ; Morgan, A.D. ; Dagless, E.L. ; Milford, D.J. ; Morrissey, J.F. ; Thomas, B.T.
Author_Institution
Fac. of Eng., Bristol Univ., UK
fYear
1989
fDate
32552
Firstpage
42583
Lastpage
42588
Abstract
Reports recent work on the mobile robot project underway at the University of Bristol. The aim of the project is 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. The system is capable of concurrently grabbing, processing and displaying 256×256 8-bit pixel images from a camera or video recorder. The authors describe algorithms which have been implemented on the transputer network to achieve near real-time execution on sequences of video data
Keywords
automatic guided vehicles; computer vision; mobile robots; road vehicles; University of Bristol; frame grabber system; image processing; mobile robot; road-following algorithms; transputer-based machine; transputers; video data;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Transputers for Image Processing Applications, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location
London
Type
conf
Filename
197849
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