A low-cost, DSP-based, intelligent vision system for robotic applications

Author

Asaad, S. ; Bishay, M. ; Wilkes, D.M. ; Kawamura, K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

22-28 Apr 1996

Firstpage

1656

Abstract

In this paper we present the design and implementation of a novel low-cost active vision system for robotic applications. The system is comprised of two parts: A 4-DOF trinocular active camera head and a DSP-based image acquisition and processing board. Design issues and tradeoffs are discussed. The performance of the system is evaluated by running an edge-based object tracking algorithm that is also presented in this paper. Experimental results show that the system is capable of tracking objects at 30 frames/sec

Keywords

active vision; digital signal processing chips; edge detection; knowledge based systems; robot vision; 30 Hz; 4-DOF trinocular active camera head; DSP-based image processing board; active vision system; edge-based object tracking algorithm; image acquisition; low-cost DSP-based intelligent vision system; robotic applications; Application software; Cameras; Computer displays; Computer vision; Control systems; Intelligent robots; Intelligent systems; Machine vision; Real time systems; Robot vision systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 1996. Proceedings., 1996 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2988-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.1996.506950

Filename

506950