This paper presents an implementation of a ball catching task using a monocular vision-based mobile robot. We have proposed a motion strategy for catching a ball flying in three-dimensional space. This strategy has its roots in the field of experimental psychology but is more powerful and concentrated on a robot. A practical trajectory control law is derived for a non-holonomic mobile robot to ...

The paper reports a solution for the integration of the industrial robot ABB IRB140 with the system for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and the system for computer vision. The robot has the task to manipulate the objects placed randomly on a pad lying on a table, and the computer vision system has to recognize their characteristics (shape, dimension, color, position, and orientation). The AS...

In this work we describe a novel setup for implementation and development of stereo vision attention models in a realistic embodied setting. We introduce a stereo vision robot head, called POPEYE, that provides degrees of freedom comparable to a human head. We describe the geometry of the robot as well as the characteristics that make it a good candidate for studying models of visual attention....

A design and implementation method of a robot soccer system with three vision‐based autonomous robots is proposed in this paper. A hierarchical architecture with four independent layers: (a) information layer, (b) strategy layer, (c) tactics layer, and (d) execution layer, is proposed to construct a flexible and robust vision‐based autonomous robot soccer system efficiently. Five ...

A design and implementation method of a robot soccer system with three vision‐based autonomous robots is proposed in this paper. A hierarchical architecture with four independent layers: (a) information layer, (b) strategy layer, (c) tactics layer, and (d) execution layer, is proposed to construct a flexible and robust vision‐based autonomous robot soccer system efficiently. Five ...

This paper presents an approach to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based on stereo vision. Standard stereo techniques are used to estimate 3D scene structure (point clouds). Point clouds at subsequent times are registered to estimate robot motion, and used to build a global environment map. Preliminary experimental results are also presented and discussed. Key-Words: Robot localisa...

Geometric algebra has been proved to be a powerful mathematical language for robot vision. We give an overview of some research results in two different areas of robot vision. These are signal theory in the multidimensional case and knowledge based neural computing. In both areas a considerable extension of the modeling has been achieved by applying geometric algebra.

This paper sets out to overview the progress of a binocular robot vision project titled the "Active Stereo Probe" (ASP) and present the novel aspects of an active controllable illumination system to be integrated with a robot vision head now under development

This paper addresses a new architecture that employs optical flow for vision based obstacle avoidance problem for mobile robot navigation. The proposed architecture utilizes monocular vision for navigation and obstacle avoidance. Real experiments to guide a Pioneer 3-DX mobile robot in indoor environments are presented, and the analysis of the results allow us to validate the proposed behavior ...