Computing Camera Viewpoints in a Robot Work-Cell

Published in Robotics and Automation, 1996. Proceedings., 1996 IEEE International Conference on, 1996

Automatically planning a camera viewpoint for tasks such as inspection in an active robot work-cell is a difficult problem. This paper discusses new methods for computing viewpoints which meet the feature detectability constraints of focus, field-of-view, visibility, and resolution. A theoretical outline of the method is presented, followed by experimental results and a discussion of future work.

Recommended citation: Abrams, Steven , Allen, Peter K. and Tarabanis, Konstantinos, Computing Camera Viewpoints in a Robot Work-Cell International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 267-285, March 1999.

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