Direction control for an active docking behaviour based on the rotational component of log-polar optic flow

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1843, Issue , 2000, Pages 167-181

  Barnes, Nick ^a   Sandini, Giulio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active vision and real time vision; Docking; Vision guided mobile robots

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; DOCKING; MOBILE ROBOTS; OPTICAL FLOWS; REAL TIME CONTROL;

ALGORITHM AND IMPLEMENTATION; CAMERA CALIBRATION; DIRECTION OF MOTION; HEADING DIRECTIONS; MATHEMATICAL DERIVATION; REAL TIME VISION; REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATIONS; ROTATIONAL COMPONENT;

VISUAL SERVOING;

EID: 84880485897     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45053-x_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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