Machine Vision for Robotics

Abstract

This paper examines robotic vision and its relation to computer vision. The role of vision as a robotic sensory process is discussed and compared with the other robotic sensory processes. Some fundamentals of machine vision processing are discussed for the binary, gray-scale, and three-dimensional cases. The paper stresses the need for three-dimensional vision processing for robotic tasks. Architectures and control structures for several different vision processing approaches are explored.