AV-Shell, an Environment for Autonomous Robotic Applications Using Active Vision

  • Authors:
  • Jeffrey A. Fayman;Ehud Rivlin;Henrik I. Christensen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Israel Institute of Technology—Technion, Haifa, Israel. jefff@virtue3d.com;Department of Computer Science, Israel Institute of Technology—Technion, Haifa, Israel. ehvdr@cs.technion.ac.il;Centre for Autonomous Systems, Numerical Analysis and Computing Science, Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm Sweeden. hic@nada.kth.se

  • Venue:
  • Autonomous Robots
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a system called the Active Vision Shell(AV-shell) which provides a programming framework for expressing andimplementing autonomous robotic tasks using perception and actionwhere perception is provided by active vision. The AV-shell is asystem with a powerful interactive C-shell style interface providingmany important capabilities including: (1) architectural support; (2) an abstract interface enabling interaction with a wide variety ofdevices; (3) a rich set of visual routines; and (4) a processcomposition framework. The utility of the AV-shell is demonstrated inseveral examples showing the relevance of the AV-shell to meaningfulapplications in autonomous robotics.