Odometry using incremental wheel encoder sensors provides the relative position of mobile robots. This relative position is fundamental information for pose estimation by various sensors for EKF Localization, Monte Carlo Localization etc. Odometry is also used as unique information for localization of environmental conditions when absolute measurement systems are not...

The road network is an essential economic factor for the German industry. Until now, the whole horizontal and vertical alignment parameters are not known. To determine these parameters the Technische Universität Dresden has implemented a measurement system which is realised in a mobile mapping vehicle. The car includes the following sensors: Position and orientation system Applanix POS LV 420, ...

Mapping and calibration from a human hand to a robot hand pose a challenge due to their differences in kinematic structures. This paper uses the CyberGlove as the input device for telemanipulating an object with the thumb and the index finger of the Shadow Dexterous HandTM, with the focus not only on the position but also on the orientation of the thumb fingertip because it is found through exp...

The purpose of this paper is to present a real-time vision system for position determination and vision guidance to navigate an autonomous mobile robot in a known environment. We use a digital camera, which provide ten times the video capture bandwidth then a USB, using FireWire interface. In order to achieve real-time image processing we use MMX technology to accelerate vision tasks. Camera ca...

In this paper a simple eye tracking and calibration approach for glasses-free stereoscopic 3D displays is presented that requires only one ordinary camera for tracking. The approach is designed for the use with parallax barrier based screens, but should with(out) limitations also be usable with other autostereoscopic screens. The robust eye tracking approach can easily be reimplemented and is b...

In this paper, in order to solve the problems of a narrow viewing angle and the flip effect in a three-dimensional (3D) integral imaging display, we propose an improved system by using an eye tracking method based on the Kinect sensor. In the proposed method, we introduce two types of calibration processes. First process is to perform the calibration between two cameras within Kinect sensor to ...

We present a new kinematic calibration algorithm for redundantly actuated parallel mechanisms, and illustrate the algorithm with a case study of a planar seven-element 2-degree-of-freedom (DOF) mechanism with three actuators. To calibrate a nonredundantly actuated parallel mechanism, one can find actual kinematic parameters by means of geometrical constraint of the mechanism’s kinematic structu...