The XT-1 Vision Architecture

Abstract

A mobile robot navigating in an unstructured environment faces many difficult problems for which vision may potentially offer useful solutions. The XT-1 (eXpectation based Template matching) architecture was developed in an attempt to address many of these problems with similar constructions. The current system handles such diverse problems as landmark and place recognition, the generation of orienting and anticipatory saccades, smooth pursuit, as well as visual servoing during locomotion.