Augmented Reality (AR) is a rapidly developing field with numerous potential applications. For example, building developers, public authorities, and other construction industry stakeholders need to visually assess potential new developments with regard to aesthetics, health and safety, and other criteria. Current state-ofthe-art visualization technologies are mainly fully virtual, while AR has ...

Robots are playing an important role in the military application. Most of the work in the military is dangerous for human being. In a war field or rescue operation a soldier needs to take his own way to reach the destination. Most of the ways are dangerous for a soldier. Hence robot replaces the soldier and path planning is depending on the image processing and microcontroller based embedded sy...

NASA’s next generation Mars rovers are capable of capturing panoramic stereo imagery of their surroundings. Threedimensional terrain maps can be derived from such imagery through stereo image correlation. While 3-D data is inherently valuable for planning a path through local terrain, obstacle detection is not fully reliable due to anomalies and noise in the range data. We present an obstacle-d...

Fast manipulation of unknown objects is a basic ability on the way to the robotic co-worker, because it is mostly impractical to have a model of each object in the environment. This paper addresses the problem of grasping and delivering unknown objects by an industrial robot from a table using one single camera image. The delivery planning for each object is done with respect to the packing pro...

When planning goal-directed reaches, subjects must estimate the position of the arm by integrating visual and proprioceptive signals from the sensory periphery. These integrated position estimates are required at two stages of motor planning: first to determine the desired movement vector, and second to transform the movement vector into a joint-based motor command. We quantified the contributi...

This paper deals with the automation of dextrous grasping in a partly known environment using a stereo vision system and a multiingered hand mounted on a robot arm. EEective grasping requires a combination of sensing and planning capabilities: sensing to construct a well-adapted model of the situation and to guide the execution of the task, and planning to determine an appropriate grasping stra...

In this survey we provide a comprehensive technical review of existing major approaches to path planning for visual servoing. Visual servoing has been introduced as a promising approach for sensor-based robotic tasks. The basic visual servoing task is to guide the motion of a robot with respect to a target object based on the feedback obtained through a vision system. Amalgamation of path plann...

The dramatic growth of online education over the past two decades is requiring colleges to make a shift from fragmented approaches to program planning and implementation towards a framework integrating both into a coherent support system. This article provides an overview of an emerging holistic framework for planning and implementation of online programs calling for shared strategic planning n...

Web Service (WS) domains constitute an application field where automated planning can significantly contribute towards achieving customisable and adaptable compositions. Following the vision of using domain-independent planning and declarative complex goals to generate compositions based on atomic service descriptions, we apply a planning framework based on Constraint Satisfaction techniques to...

The idea of Fixation introduced a direct method for general recovery of shape and motion from images without using either feature correspondence or optical flow [1,2]. There are some parameters which have important effects on the performance of fixation method. However, the theory of fixation does not say anything about the autonomous and correct choice of those parameters. This paper presents ...