REAL-TIME OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE USING CENTRAL FLOW DIVERGENCE AND PERIPHERAL FLOW (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance Using Central Flow Divergence and Peripheral FlowThe lure of using motion vision as a fundamental element in the perception of space drives this ejfort to use flow features as the sole cues for robot mobility. Real-time estimates of image flow and flow divergence provide the robots sense of space. The robot steers down a conceptual corridor, comparing left and right peripheral flows. Large central flow divergence warns the robot of impending col lisions at dead ends. When this occurs, the robot turns around and resumes wandering. Behavior is generated by directly using flow-based information in the 2-d image sequence, no 3-d reconstruction is attempted. Active mechanical gaze stabilization simplifies the visual interpretation problems by reducing camera rota tion. By combining corridor following and dead-end deflection, the robot has wan dered around the lab at 30 cm/s for as long as 20 minutes without collision. The ability to support this behavior in real-time with current equipment promises expanded capabilities as computational power increases in the future.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works._,