An intelligent service robot using purposive vision

Author

Ren, Xiao Ou ; Gruver, William A. ; Li, Ze-Nian

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. Sci., Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC, Canada

Volume

4

fYear

1995

fDate

22-25 Oct 1995

Firstpage

3684

Abstract

An intelligent robot system is described. The system consists of a Nomad 200 mobile robot having a ring of 16 ultrasonic sensors, and a pan-tilt mechanism with a CCD camera mounted on the top. Navigation is based on landmark tracing using active and purposive vision. The proposed technique significantly reduces the processing time and increases system efficiency. The body movements and head movements are guided by the coordination of sonar readings and camera image inputs

Keywords

Hough transforms; active vision; feature extraction; intelligent control; mobile robots; navigation; robot vision; sonar tracking; CCD camera; Hough transform; Nomad 200 mobile robot; active vision; body movements; feature extraction; head movements; intelligent service robot; landmark tracing; purposive vision; sonar; ultrasonic sensors; Cameras; Charge coupled devices; Charge-coupled image sensors; Intelligent robots; Intelligent sensors; Mobile robots; Robot vision systems; Sensor systems; Service robots; Sonar navigation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1995. Intelligent Systems for the 21st Century., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2559-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1995.538360

Filename

538360