Vision Based Autonomous Robot Navigation Algorithms and Implementations /

• Main Authors: Chatterjee, Amitava (Author), Rakshit, Anjan (Author), Nirmal Singh, N. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 455
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Robotics.; Automation.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Robotics and Automation.

This book is devoted to the theory and development of autonomous navigation of mobile robots using computer vision based sensing mechanism. The conventional robot navigation systems, utilizing traditional sensors like ultrasonic, IR, GPS, laser sensors etc., suffer several drawbacks related to eithe...

Table of Contents:

• Mobile Robot Navigation
• Interfacing External Peripherals with a Mobile Robot
• Vision-Based Mobile Robot Navigation Using Subgoals
• Indigenous Development of Vision-Based Mobile Robots
• Sample Implementations of Vision-Based Mobile Robot Algorithms
• Vision Based Mobile Robot Path/Line Tracking
• Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in Mobile Robots
• Vision Based SLAM in Mobile Robots.