COMPUTER VISION BASED MOBILE ROBOT NAVIGATION IN UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENTS

Abstract

There has been an increasing interest for mobile robotics structures because they allow making activities without human supervision. This paper presents the main problems of an autonomous mobile robotic platform, which uses digital image processing techniques for extracting important information from the environment. In the following, there will be presented acquisition approaches based on digital cameras, approaches that will be used for visual navigation. The navigation process is based on probabilistic methods. The simultaneous localization and mapping structures will be the one that integrates both the navigation process and the probabilistic approaches.