Originally published December 11 2003
Robots navigation skills vastly improved by giving it 'omni-directional' vision
by Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor
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A robot on the move must be able to sense whether it is travelling in
a straight line or spinning on the spot.
- But telling the difference is difficult with just a single camera for
an eye.
- Yiannis Aloimonos, a computer scientist at the University of Maryland
in College Park, says the best way to understand the problem is to
imagine seeing the world through a cardboard tube.
- Turning your head from side to side gives an image that is hard to
distinguish from the view you get if you move sideways.
- Now they have used this proof to develop software that processes
images from a set of cameras arranged on the surface of a sphere to give
omni-directional vision.
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