Camera self orientation and docking maneuver using normal flow

Paolo Questa; Etienne Grossmann; Giulio Sandini

doi:10.1117/12.211980

16 June 1995 Camera self orientation and docking maneuver using normal flow

Paolo Questa, Etienne Grossmann, Giulio Sandini

Proceedings Volume 2488, Visual Information Processing IV; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.211980
Event: SPIE's 1995 Symposium on OE/Aerospace Sensing and Dual Use Photonics, 1995, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

In this paper, the possibility of driving egomotion in order to dock with a nonmoving target using information on the first order approximation of the optic flow in the center of the image is presented; specifically it will be shown how a camera mounted on the end-effector of a six degrees of freedom robot arm can be driven toward a planar surface whose position and orientation in space are unknown, avoiding collisions with the target and orienting the camera with its viewing direction perpendicular to the surface. It will be described how it is possible to achieve this task combining the effect of three simple independent processes: braking, fixation, and sideway translation.

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Paolo Questa, Etienne Grossmann, and Giulio Sandini "Camera self orientation and docking maneuver using normal flow", Proc. SPIE 2488, Visual Information Processing IV, (16 June 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.211980

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