Development of visual odometry component by using omni-directional camera
Tadayuki Yokota, Kajiro Watanabe, Kazuyuki Kobayashi, Yousuke Kurihara · Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan · 2011
This paper describes a new visual odometry component for a mobile robot operating in an outdoor environment such as Real World Robot Challenge (RWRC), based on omni-directional camera images. The validity of the proposed method is examined by actual experiments using an electric wheelchair based mobile robot.