Machine vision system for mobile robot navigation

Authors: Ren Shufeng
Published in issue: #6(11)/2017
DOI: 10.18698/2541-8009-2017-6-109
Category: Mechanical Engineering and Machine Science | Chapter: Robots, Mechatronics, and Robotic Systems
Keywords: mobile robot, robot navigation, reference point, machine vision system, coordinate measurement error
Published: 06.06.2017

We solve the problem of positioning a mobile robot based on the information from the machine vision system. Three reference points with known coordinates form the basis for computing the mobile robot's position, and the machine vision system determines current directions towards those points. We analysed the coordinate measurement error for the method we describe and suggest a solution to the problem of selecting the reference point combination.

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