Mobile robot perception using vertical line stereo

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Abstract

This paper describes a real-time 3-D vision system which uses stereo matching of vertical edge segments. The system is designed to permit a mobile robot to avoid obstacles and to position itself within an indoor environment. The system uses real-time edge tracking to lock onto stereo matches. Stereo matching is performed using global version of dynamic programming for matching stereo segments.

The paper starts by describing the hypotheses which make possible an inexpensive real-time stereo system. The process for detecting vertical edge points and describing these points as vertical edge segments is then described. This is followed by a brief description of the edge tracking process. Stereo matching by global dynamic programming is then described.

Stereo matching makes it possible to recover the 3-D position of vertical lines. The mathematics for projecting 3-D vertical segments from stereo matches is presented. A parametric representation for 3-D vertical segments is then described. This representation describes 3-D segments as a vector of parameters with their uncertainty.

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This work sponsored by Socieété ITMI and Project EUREKA EU 110: MITHRA.

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