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A visual monitoring network suitable for robotic systems is presented in this paper. The monitoring network is composed of embedded vision nodes. By interacting with an upper computer as well as the robotic system, the monitoring network provides an important supplement, which may accelerate the task execution. Each embedded vision node captures and processes images independently, and it is easy to install with compact size. The vision node contains a S3C2440 processor as the main processing module, a CMOS camera as the image capturing module and a zigbee module for wireless communication. The detection based on frame difference or color feature is used to determine the mass center of moving object. On this basis, the object information from one vision node may also be sent to another one for stereo vision localization with stereo vision model and least square method. Application examples are demonstrated to testify the monitoring network.
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Jiao, J., Ye, S., Cao, Z., Yang, Y., Liu, X., Tan, M. (2012). A Monitoring Network Based on Embedded Vision Nodes Suitable for Robotic Systems. In: Su, CY., Rakheja, S., Liu, H. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7508. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33503-7_5
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