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In this paper, we propose a system for vision guided autonomous circumnavigation, allowing robots to navigate around objects of arbitrary pose. The system performs knowledge-based object recognition from an intensity image using a canonical viewer-centred model. A path planned from a geometric model then guides the robot in circum-navigating the object. This system can be used in many applications where robots have to recognize and manipulate objects of unknown pose and placement. Such applications occur in a variety of contexts such as factory automation, underwater and space exploration, and nuclear power station maintenance. We also define a canonical-view graph to model objects, which is a viewer-centred representation.
This work is supported in part by an Australian Research Council (ARC) large grant.
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Barnes, N., Liu, ZQ. (1995). Vision guided circumnavigating autonomous robots. In: Chin, R.T., Ip, H.H.S., Naiman, A.C., Pong, TC. (eds) Image Analysis Applications and Computer Graphics. ICSC 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1024. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60697-1_84
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