Sistema de visão para robôs móveis: uma aplicação ao reconhecimento de referências geométricas

Abstract

The availability of sensorial data is an important issue for the navigation systemof autonomous mobile robots. The robot needs information about its surroundingenvironment in order to make a decision on what to do when it faces an obstacle. Insome cases, it not only does need to detect the presence of the obstacle but also torecognize it. This way, it is necessary that the onboard sensing system be much morespecialized. For an agent-based controlled autonomous mobile robot, a sensing systemthat combines ultrasonic sensors and artificial vision is here addressed. It makesavailable information about the type of obstacle detected in the trajectory of the robot, aswell as the distance from the detected object to the robot. This external sensing systemis also able to avoid the generation of redundant and unnecessary information, besidesnot demanding too much computational effort to process the acquired images onboardthe robot