Compatibilities for the Perception-Action Cycle

We apply an eye-on-hand Robot Vision system for treating the following three tasks: (a) Tracking objects for obstacle avoidance; (b) Arranging certain viewing conditions; (c) Acquiring an object recognition function. The novelty is the use of so-called compatibilities between motion features and view sequence features. Under real image formation, compatibilities are more general and appropriate than exact invariants. We demonstrate the usefulness for constraining the search for corresponding features, for parameterizing correlation matching procedures, and for fine-tuning approximations of appearance manifolds.