3D Scene Capture and Analysis for Intelligent Robotics
Ray A. Jarvis · IGI Global eBooks · 2013
The capability of robots to function effectively in the unstructured real world is dominated by the extent to which supporting sensory and computational resources can capture and analyse the 3D working environments within which they are to carry out their tasks. Many device technologies and computational algorithms have been developed over the last 30 years to enable such capabilities. This chapter chronicles a diverse range of such developments, comparing and contrasting them and indicating their various strengths and weaknesses to support intelligent robotic functionality in various domains of application.