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A dynamically reconfigurable stereoscopic/panoramic vision mobile robot head controlled from a virtual environment

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We have built a mobile robotic platform that features an Active Robotic Head (ARH) with two high-resolution cameras that can be switched during robot operation between two configurations that produce respectively panoramic and stereoscopic images. Image disparity is used for improving the quality of the texture. The robot head switches dynamically, based on robot operation between the stereoscopic configuration and the panoramic configuration.

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  1. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

    Walter A. Aprile, Emanuele Ruffaldi, Edoardo Sotgiu, Antonio Frisoli & Massimo Bergamasco

  2. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Walter A. Aprile

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Aprile, W.A., Ruffaldi, E., Sotgiu, E. et al. A dynamically reconfigurable stereoscopic/panoramic vision mobile robot head controlled from a virtual environment. TVC 24, 941–946 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-008-0278-0

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