Title :
Autonomous road vehicle navigation
Author_Institution :
US Army Missile Command, Huntsville, AL
Abstract :
The US Army Missile Command is conducting a program to develop and demonstrate a simple, low cost machine vision system capable of allowing an unmanned ground vehicle to perform autonomous road following and obstacle avoidance while using a minimum sensor suite. Current work is focused on developing this vision system to perform its function using color and monochrome TV imagery. The first phase of the program has involved the development and application of color and monochrome image processing techniques to the task of discriminating a road from the surrounding environment. With the road defined, a guidance vector is determined for vehicle steering
Keywords :
artificial intelligence; computer vision; mobile robots; path planning; US Army Missile Command; autonomous road following; autonomous road vehicle navigation; guidance vector; image processing; machine vision system; minimum sensor suite; monochrome TV imagery; obstacle avoidance; unmanned ground vehicle; vehicle steering; Color; Costs; Image processing; Land vehicles; Machine vision; Missiles; Navigation; Road vehicles; Sensor systems; TV;
Conference_Titel :
Electronic Technology Directions to the Year 2000, 1995. Proceedings.
Conference_Location :
Adelaide, SA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7085-1
DOI :
10.1109/ETD.1995.403489
