Cooperative object manipulation control of rigid-flexible multi-body systems in space is studied in this paper. During such tasks, flexible members like solar panels may get vibrated that in turn may lead to some oscillatory disturbing forces on other subsystems, and consequently produces error in the motion of the end-effectors of the cooperative manipulating arms. Therefore, to design and dev...

Most robotic grasping tasks assume a stationary or xed object. In this paper, we explore the requirements for tracking and grasping a moving object. The focus of our work is to achieve a high level of interaction between a real-time vision system capable of tracking moving objects in 3-D and a robot arm equipped with a dexterous hand that can be used pick up a moving object. We are interested i...

Most robotic grasping tasks assume a stationary or fixed object. In this paper, we explore the requirements for tracking and grasping a moving object. The focus of our work is to achieve a high level of interaction between a real-time vision system capable of tracking moving objects in 3-D and a robot arm with gripper that can be used to pick up a moving object. There is an interest in explorin...

Object segmentation and tracking are important techniques in video applications. In this paper, we present a novel system for active contour tracking of moving objects in video sequences. Our method includes preprocessing to identify an initial object contour, and object contour segmentation to refine the contour of the moving object. The edge flows and ant colony optimization are incorporated ...

In the field of security automated surveillance systems are very useful. Surveillance system can be used to detect and track the moving objects. First phase of the system is to detect the moving objects in the video. Second phase of the system will track the detected object. In this paper, detection of the moving object has been done using simple background subtraction and tracking of single mo...

Extracting moving objects from a video shot provides a good low-level representation of videos. It provides object trajectory, color, shape characteristics. Combined with specific domain knowledge, it can be a powerful cue as what is going in a video shot. This paper proposes a unsupervised moving object extraction/tracking system that attempts to capture salient moving objects from an image se...

In the physical world, an object is a moving object if its position changes over time. In a symbolic dynamic system such as a computer program or a blocks world, what are the moving objects? In this paper, we propose a definition, consider ways to generate moving objects and their “positions”. We also introduce the flow graph of a moving object. It depicts the “trajectory” of the object, thus s...

We present an integrated system, able to pursue a moving object by controlling a robot-head to maintain the moving object centered in the image. This system runs continuously in time and updates the object localization at a frame-rate of 25 Hz. The moving object can be tracked although the observer performs an unknown independent motion, involving both translation and rotation. We focus on a si...

Camera-based systems are frequently used to track moving objects which are in the field of their view. This paper describes design and development of a camerabased visual system that can constantly track a moving object without the necessity of calibrating the camera in real world coordinates. This reduces the complexity of the system and processing time due to unnecessary conversions and calib...