Summary of Distance Measurement Based on Vision in Localization Technology

Abstract

In localization technology for a mobile robot, visual locating is widely concerned because of its high precision and large amount of information, et al. Firstly, the paper introduces some popular locating methods and shows the advantages and disadvantages. Secondly, it discusses some technology related to distance measurement in visual locating, such as image segment, feature matching, camera calibration, etc. Development directions of visual locating are also discussed. At last, it analyzes some problems existing in visual locating, some possible schemes to solve them are proposed