Visual guidance of mobile platforms
Rodney J. Blissett · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1993
Two systems are described and results presented demonstrating aspects of real-time visual guidance of autonomous mobile platforms. The first approach incorporates prior knowledge in the form of rigid geometrical models linking visual references within the environment. The second approach is based on a continuous synthesis of information extracted from image tokens to generate a coarse-grained world model, from which potential obstacles are inferred. The use of these techniques in workplace applications is discussed.