Spinoza: A Stereoscopic Visually Guided Mobile Robot

  • Authors:
  • Vladimir Tucakov;Michael Sahota;Don Murray;Alan Mackworth;Jim Little;Stewart Kingdon;Cullen Jennings;Rod Barman

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • HICSS '97 Proceedings of the 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences: Advanced Technology Track - Volume 5
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Our mobile robot, Spinoza, embodies a sophisticatedreal-time vision system for control of a mobile robotin a dynamic environment. The complexity of ourrobot architecture arises from the wide variety of tasksthat need to be performed and the resulting challenge of coordinating multiple distributed, concurrentprocesses on a diverse range of processor architectures including Transputers, digital signal processors,and a workstation host. The system handles sensing, reasoning, and action components of a robot distributed over these architectures, and responds to unpredictable events in an unknown dynamic environment. Spinoza relies heavily on its capability to perform real-time vision processing in order to perform task such as mapping, navigation, exploration, tracking, and simple manipulation.