Visual self-location of a mobile robot

  • Ishikawa, Seiji (Department of Electric, Electronic and Computer Engineering Kyushu Institute of Technology) ;
  • Kikuchi, Akira (Department of Electric, Electronic and Computer Engineering Kyushu Institute of Technology) ;
  • Kato, Kiyoshi (Department of Electric, Electronic and Computer Engineering Kyushu Institute of Technology)
  • Published : 1989.10.01

Abstract

This paper presents a technique for an autonomous mobile robot to locate its own position in a visual way. The developed mobile robot perceives its surroundings through an equipped TV camera and acquires the visual information necessary for its next behavior. The robot which is assumed to move in a laboratory environment identifies its position by recognizing three different marks in the environment and analyzing the positional relation between these marks and itself. This technique was examined by an experiment and a satisfactory result was obtained.

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