A real-time vision controlled robot tracking a randomly moving object

摘要

The environment of a robot is not fixed anymore like in the early days of robotics. The production engineers demand robots to work in a flexible environment. To fulfill this requirement we investigated a case where a CCD camera was connected to a robot (SCARA-type). The robot has the task to track and find an object which is moving in and out the workspace of the robot. The positions of the servo motors of the robot are controlled by a transputer network using 4 T800 transputers.