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Title: Robot navigation control based on monocular images: An image processing algorithm for obstacle avoidance decisions
Authors: Benn, W
Lauria, S
Issue Date: 2012
Publisher: Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Citation: Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2012, Article 240476, 2012
Abstract: This paper covers the use of monocular vision to control autonomous navigation for a robot in a dynamically changing environment. The solution focused on using colour segmentation against a selected floor plane to distinctly separate obstacles from traversable space, this is then supplemented with canny edge detection to separate similarly coloured boundaries to the floor plane. The resulting binary map (where white identifies an obstacle-free area and black identifies an obstacle) could then be processed by fuzzy logic or neural networks to control the robot’s next movements. Findings shows that the algorithm performed strongly on solid coloured carpets, wooden and concrete floors but had difficulty in separating colours in multi-coloured floor types such as patterned carpets.
URI: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/mpe/2012/240476/
http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7943
ISSN: 1024-123X
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Dept of Computer Science Research Papers

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