| Description |
192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Series in machine perception and artificial intelligence ; v. 6 |
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Series in machine perception and artificial intelligence ; v. 6
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| Contents |
CONTENTS; EDITORIAL; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. ACTIVE VISION; 3. MODEL BASED ROBOT NAVIGATION; 4. REACTIVE ROBOT CONTROL; 5. HIGHLIGHTS; REFERENCES; THE HARVARD BINOCULAR HEAD; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1. Overview; 2. DESCRIPTION OF THE HARVARD BINOCULAR HEAD; 2.1. Fixation: 3 Orientation Degrees of Freedom; 2.2. Lens Control; 3. OCULOMOTOR CONTROL SYSTEM FOR THE HARVARD HEAD; 4. PERFORMANCE OF THE HARVARD HEAD; 5. APPLICATIONS OF THE HARVARD HEAD; 5.1. Tracking; 5.2 Attentive Servoing; 5.3. Depth from Controlled Head Motion; 6. DISCUSSION: SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENTS; 7. SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES |
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3. A BINOCULAR CAMERA HEAD3.1 Mechanical Hardware; 3.2. Control Architecture; 4. A DEVICE LEVEL CONTROLLER FOR A BINOCULAR HEAD; 4.1. A Virtual Head; 4.2. Estimating the Gaze Point; 4.3. Redundant Control of the Gaze Point in the Ocular Plane; 5. REFLEX LEVEL CONTROL OF OCULAR PARAMETERS; 5.1. Focus; 5.2. Control of Aperture; 5.3. Control of Convergence; 6. CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; SAVIC: A SIMULATION, VISUALIZATION AND INTERACTIVE CONTROL ENVIRONMENT FOR MOBILE ROBOTS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. GRAPHICAL ENVIRONMENT FOR INTEGRATED ROBOTIC SYSTEMS: RESEARCH OBJECTIVES |
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3. HEAD DESIGN4. PERFORMANCE; 5. DISCUSSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; APPENDIX A. MECHANICAL DESIGN OF TRISH; APPENDIX B. COST OF TRISH; APPENDIX C. ACTUAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES OF TRISH; A LOW-COST ROBOT CAMERA HEAD; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. REQUIREMENTS FOR A HEAD; 2.1. Intrinsic Camera Parameters; 2.2. Extrinsic Camera Parameters; 2.3. Head Parameters; 3. SPECIFICATION FOR THE INITIAL PROTOTYPE; 3.1. Intrinsic Parameters; 3.2. Extrinsic Camera Parameters; 3.3. Head Parameters; 4. THE PROTOTYPE; 4.1. Mechanical Construction; 4.2. Interfacing; 5. INITIAL EXPERIMENT |
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3. SIMULATION OF A MOBILE ROBOT WITH ARTICULATED TRACKS AND A MODULAR MANIPULATOR |
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6. LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE CONSTRUCTIONACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; APPENDIX. SOME COMPANIES WHICH HAVE PARTS FOR A ROBOT CAMERA HEAD; THE SURREY ATTENTIVE ROBOT VISION SYSTEM; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. ACTIVE VISION; 3. STEREO IMAGING PLATFORMS; 4. THE SURREY STEREO SENSOR; 4.1. Mechanical Specification; 4.2. Electrical Specfication; 4.3. Control Hardware; 5. CONTROL STRATEGY; 6. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; 7. CURRENT STATUS: FUTURE WORK; 8. CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; LAYERED CONTROL OF A BINOCULAR CAMERA HEAD; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. A LAYERED CONTROL ARCHITECTURE FOR A BINOCULAR HEAD |
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HEADS, EYES AND HEAD-EYE SYSTEMS1. INTRODUCTION; 2. ACTIVE VISION IS ACTIVE INTEGRATION OF PRIMARY PROCESSES; 3. ACTIVE VISION IS PURPOSIVE VISION; 4. HEADS ON SHOULDERS VERSUS HEADS ON ARMS!; 5. EYE MOVEMENTS; 6. THE BASE-LINE RIG; 7. NECK MOVEMENTS; 8. SOME GENERAL DATA ABOUT THE KTH-HEAD; 9. THE CONTROL SYSTEM, HARDWARE AND CONFIGURATION; 10. PRIMARY OCULAR REFLEXES; 11. SOME EXPERIMENTS; 12. CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF TRISH, A BINOCULAR ROBOT HEAD WITH TORSIONAL EYE MOVEMENTS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THE GEOMETRY OF CONVERGENT BINOCULAR STEREO |
| Summary |
One of the series in Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence, this book covers subjects including the Harvard binocular head; heads, eyes, and head-eye systems; a binocular robot head with torsional eye movements; and escape and dodging behaviours for reactive control |
| Notes |
"A reprint of a special issue of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence."--Editorial |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Pattern recognition systems.
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Robot vision.
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Robotics.
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| Author |
Bowyer, Kevin, 1955-
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Bunke, Horst, 1949-
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Christensen, H. I. (Henrik I.), 1962-
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| LC no. |
96133444 |
| ISBN |
9810213212 |
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