A robust omnidirectional vision sensor for soccer robots

Mechatronics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 373-389

  Lu, Huimin ^a   Yang, Shaowu ^a   Zhang, Hui ^a   Zheng, Zhiqiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Ball recognition; Camera parameters auto adjustment; Omnidirectional vision; RoboCup; Soccer robots

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTS;

BALL RECOGNITION; CAMERA PARAMETER; COLOR CLASSIFICATION; COLOR-CODED ENVIRONMENTS; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL VISION; OMNIDIRECTIONAL VISION SENSOR; ROBOCUP MIDDLE SIZE LEAGUE SOCCER ROBOT; SOCCER ROBOT;

FOOTBALL;

EID: 79952630546     PISSN: 09574158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechatronics.2010.06.007     Document Type: Article

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