Omni directional mobile robots have been popularly employed in several applications especially in soccer player robots considered in Robocup competitions. However, Omni directional navigation system, Omni-vision system and solenoid kicking mechanism in such mobile robots have not ever been combined. This situation brings the idea of a robot with no head direction into existence, a comprehensi...

SUMMARY The planning of road, railway, and subway tracks in urban environments is a manifold task because of complex legal, environmental, economic, and structural problems. However, skills and knowledge of the participants differ substantially and computer support for complex planning still is at its beginning. Especially computer-aided collaborative planning for 3D city and building models is...

This 3D Vision project aims to demonstrate that a small-scale platform can journey through man-made and natural environments, surviving, navigating, mapping and planning, largely on the basis of passive computer vision. To this end, in our first year of work, we have set up a demonstration platform placing 3D computer vision algorithms in a robotic infrastructure so that we can challenge the co...

Vision and planning are two critical and evolving fields in the field of robotics. This project seeks to implement planning, vision, and classification algorithms in the context of locating a Heineken minikeg with an unknown environment. The algorithms will be implented on the WowWee Rovio commerical robot platform. The environment was restricted to spaces such as hallways where the predominant...

Automated optical inspection systems are frequently utilized to sort out defective objects. However, those objects might actually be reworked or disposed. The combination of defect detection and specific processing in a single operation helps to reduce reworking time and waste. Defect detection on 3D objects is approached by combining the techniques of surface detection and geometry estimation....

The vision statement of a health care organization in United States 'is to be the best healthcare system in the Universe.' Another health care organization in the States has the vision statement, "to be the world's leading consumer health care company," "create leading brands," "shape the future of consumer health care" and "recognize and reward excellence."1 A vision statement is forward-looki...

Two experiments were conducted to examine time and energy optimization strategies for movements made with and against gravity. In Experiment 1, the authors manipulated concurrent visual feedback, and knowledge about feedback. When vision was eliminated upon movement initiation, participants exhibited greater undershooting, both with their primary submovement and their final endpoint, than when ...

This thesis considers unmanned airborne surveillance systems equipped with electrooptical vision sensors. The aim is to increase the level of autonomy and improve the system performance by the use of planning methods for aerial exploration and target tracking. The general problem is very complex due to the “curse-of-dimensionality” and suboptimal approaches are necessary in order to handle adva...

The authors manipulated the availability of monocular and binocular vision during the constituent planning and control stages of a goal-directed reaching task. Furthermore, trials were completed with or without online limb vision to determine whether monocular- or binocular-derived ego-motion cues influence the integration of visual feedback for online limb corrections. Results showed that the ...