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According to the real condition of the substation inspection robot provided a vision-based navigation control method for substation inspection robot can be run in the complex road environment, with strong anti-interference, implementation of simple, good stability and high precision in this paper. Reasonably plan the inspection paths, enabling robot to full check each device in substation. Robots...
In this paper, an image-based segmentation method to improve autonomous robot navigation in the forest is presented. The detection is supported by a filtered image generated from a stereo-based pre-processing which is a byproduct of our obstacles detection system. To cope with the large variability of forest paths, the classifier is dynamically adapted to the current situation and the segmentation...
Given the trend of more complex tasks that robots should perform, we need to design increasingly robust solutions to perform tasks more efficiently and above all, real-time calculations. One of the most important tasks of a mobile robot is navigating through a room avoiding obstacles with which it may collide. Our contribution is to show how to compute efficiently time-to-contact for avoiding collisions...
Navigation assistance for visually impaired (NAVI) refers to systems that are able to assist or guide people with vision loss, ranging from partially sighted to totally blind, by means of sound commands. In this paper, a new system for NAVI is presented based on visual and range information. Instead of using several sensors, we choose one device, a consumer RGB-D camera, and take advantage of both...
In this paper a navigational aid for visually impaired people is presented. The system uses a RGB-D camera to perceive the environment and implements self-localization, obstacle detection and obstacle classification. The novelty of this work is threefold. First, self-localization is performed by means of a novel camera tracking approach that uses both depth and color information. Second, to provide...
Our aim is to automatically detect the road borders in a road scene image. This is useful to many road scenes analysis applications, in both fields of vehicle guidance and civil engineering. Difficulties arise because pavements are often heterogeneous and because illumination variations often occur in outdoor scenes. Some vehicle navigation projects use colour images for road borders detection [1,...
In urban areas, local commuting is mostly done using automobiles comprising of cars and motor cycles. With complex road networks, it becomes essential to use a device (smart phone or tablet) for viewing routes on the Global Position System (GPS) to reach the destination. However repeated looking at the device while driving becomes risky and cumbersome for safety reasons. Encountering this problem,...
This paper proposes a method to explore the user's navigation foci and visual tracks by estimating gaze points and mapping them to the objects of video content. The tracking method for multiple objects is derived from the adaptive weight based feature with probability densities. It is able to track the target objects efficiently even when the target objects are lost. It continuously applies sequence...
Autonomous mobile robots navigation and control systems are still hugely important in real time robotic applications. When moving towards fully autonomous navigation, guidance plays a vital task for successful autonomous navigation. In this paper, the authors propose real time guidance fuzzy logic application based on edge and color information surrounding the road surface by using omnidirectional...
We present a visual based approach for reactive autonomous navigation of an underwater vehicle. In particular, we are interested in the exploration and continuous monitoring of coral reefs in order to diagnose disease or physical damage. An autonomous underwater vehicle needs to decide in real time the best route while avoiding collisions with fragile marine life and structure. We have opted to use...
We present a novel technique that robustly segments free-space for robot navigation purposes. In particular, we are interested in a reactive visual navigation, in which the rapid and accurate detection of free space where the robot can navigate is crucial. Contrary to existing methods that use multiple cameras in different configurations, we use a downward-facing monocular camera to search for free...
We present a monocular vision-based navigation system that incorporates two contrasting approaches: region segmentation that computes the road appearance, and road boundary detection that estimates the road shape. The former approach segments the image into multiple regions, then selects and tracks the most likely road appearance. On the other hand, the latter detects the vanishing point and road...
In this project, the main focus is to apply image processing techniques in computer vision to agricultural mobile robots (AMR) used for trajectory navigation problems, as well as localization matters. To carry through this task, computational methods based on the JSEG algorithm were used to provide the classification and the characterization of such problems, together with Artificial Neural Networks...
This paper introduces an unsupervised graph cut based object segmentation algorithm, ShadowCut, for robotic aerial surveillance applications. By exploiting the spatial setting of the aerial imagery, ShadowCut algorithm differs from state-of-the-art object segmentation algorithms ([1] [2] [3] [4] [5]) by not requiring a large number of labelled training data set, nor constant user interaction ([6]...
This paper presents a method of structured road lane detection for blind travel aid; Median Filter is implemented to process image firstly, then mark off the region of interesting in the initial image, Canny edge enhancement, threshold is used to segment the image, road lane is fitted by modified Hough Transformation. Finally, according to the detected region to judge whether racing course of bind...
Reliability and availability are major concerns for autonomous systems. A personal robot has to solve complex tasks, such as loading a dishwasher or folding laundry, which are very difficult to automate robustly. In order for a robot to perform better in those applications, it needs to be capable of accepting help from a human operator.
Autonomous mobile robots are a very dynamic part of the robotics domain, this subject which based on artificial landmarks of mobile robot localization and navigation is one of the hot topics. How to identify signs fast and accurately is the key problem to the mobile robot localization and navigation in complex and unstructured environments for mobile robots. In this paper, a new artificial landmark...
Despite their presence in almost all real-world navigational environments, finding stereo disparity in large, weakly textured regions is a difficult task. In this paper, we present a method which constructs a novel segmentation of an image into separate planar regions prior to disparity calculation. This segmentation allows us to fit planar models to disparity estimates calculated using a graph cut...
In mobile robot scenarios, it is expected that the robot autonomously navigates through home or office environments and processes objects/landmarks during navigation. Landmark manipulation is identified as one important research area in robot navigation systems. We have developed an online robot landmark processing system (RLPS) to detect, classify, and localize different types of landmarks during...
A quick estimation of depth is required by artificial vision systems for their self survival and navigation through the environment. Following the selection strategy of biological vision, known as visual attention, can help in accelerating extraction of depth for important and relevant portions of given scenes. Recent studies on depth perception in biological vision indicate that disparity is computed...
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