Low cost vision system for an educational platform in artificial intelligence and robotics

Abstract

Abstract This paper presents a web‐cam based vision system for performing image processing in real time. It was implemented as part of an AI and Robotics educational platform designed to study collaborative moving robots in a dynamic environment. A color based image segmentation algorithm was developed with careful attention to algorithm efficiency, due to hardware limitations for the maximum frame rate. This led to a simple and cost‐effective vision system that is able to detect and identify several mobile robots through successive frames. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 10: 238–248, 2002; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com); DOI 10.1002/cae.10026