FPGA-based object detection and motion tracking in micro- And nanorobotics

International Journal of Intelligent Mechatronics and Robotics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 27-37

  Diederichs, Claas ^a   Fatikow, Sergej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connected component labeling; Embedded system; Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAS); Microhandling; Motion tracking; Object detecting; Visual servoing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893111620     PISSN: 21561664     EISSN: 21561656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/ijimr.2013010103     Document Type: Article

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