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It is interesting to observe from human visually guided tasks that visual feedback is not used for the entire movement, but only at end phases when our hand is near the target. We are able to move our hand from an initial position that is not within our field of view and transit smoothly and easily into visual feedback when the target is near. Inspired by this natural action, this paper presents a...
This paper describes a switching visual servoing control scheme designed for an underwater vehicle with nonholonomic constraints. The objective of the proposed control methodology is to provide a human tele-operator the capability to move the vehicle without loosing a visual target from the vision system's optical field. Target tracking and vehicle pose are obtained using a laser vision system (LVS)...
In this paper we present a voice command and mouth gesture based robot command interface which is capable of controlling three degrees of freedom. The gesture set was designed in order to avoid head rotation and translation, and thus relying solely in mouth movements. Mouth segmentation is performed by using the normalized a* component, as in J. Gomez, et al., (October 2008). The gesture detection...
The importance of the robots for home, public places and many other places are increasing. In order to realize autonomous work in such dynamic and unknown environment, recognizing external world is required. In addition, robots also have to move quickly and work accurately. In this paper, the control system for a two wheels driven redundant mobile manipulator with a monocular camera as a visual sensor...
The angular vestibulo-ocular and opto-kinetic reflexes (aVOR and OKR) combine to provide compensation for head rotations in space to help maintain a steady image on the retina. We previously implemented an artificial angular vestibulo-ocular reflex with a fully articulated binocular control system in a quadruped robot head. In this paper, we describe the implementation of artificial opto-kinetic and...
In this paper, the control problem, in a 3D cartesian space, of camera-in-hand robotic systems is considered. In this approach, a camera is mounted on the robot, at the hand, which provides an image of objects located in the robot environment. The aim of this approach is to move the robot arm in such a way that the image of the considered object, a sphere in our case, coincides with the center of...
We present a visual servoing scheme enabling non-holonomic mobile robots with a fixed pinhole camera to reach and follow a continuous path on the ground. The controller utilizes only a small set of features extracted from the image plane, without using the complete geometric representation of the path. The scheme is position-based, and a Lyapunov-based stability analysis is carried out. The performance...
This paper deals with the image-based dynamic visual feedback control via the passivity approach which is investigated in the position-based one. We construct an energy function using the error in the image plane. The passivity of the visual feedback system is derived from the energy function. We show passivity of the image-based dynamic visual feedback system by combining the passivity of both the...
Based on a recent state-of-the-art image-based visual feedback control scheme in fixed uncalibrated camera proposed by the authors, the experimental verification is presented. However, image acquisition and processing for closed-loop control introduces technological challenges through the time delay induced by the CCD camera itself. Thus, to preserve the time domain algorithm and to avoid discretization...
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