Self-positioning of a mobile robot using a vision system and image overlay with VRML

摘要

The research described a method for localizing a mobile robot in the working environment using a vision system and VRML. The robot identifies landmarks in the environment and carries out the self-positioning. The image-processing and neural network pattern matching techniques were employed to recognize landmarks placed in a robot working environment. The robot self-positioning using vision system was based on the well-known localization algorithm. After self-positioning, the 2D scene of the vision is overlaid with the VRML scene. How to realize the self-positioning was described. Also the result of overlapping between the 2D scene and VRML scene was shown. In addition, the advantage expected from overlapping both scenes described.