Câmbio: A Realistic Simulated Robot for Vision Algorithms

We introduce concepts and algorithms for control of visual motor commands and realistic simulation of basic abilities as visual servoing and perception for robotics vision simulation. We use the tools to build part of a humanoid (arms and head) robot, affectively named “Câmbio”. We describe Câmbio’s design, providing an overview on the most used feature extraction techniques for perception, discussing implementation issues. We show the usefulness of a simulated platform as an inexpensive alternative for testing and developing computer vision algorithms in real-time robotics applications.