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Author :Arthur de Miranda Neto Publisher :LAP Lambert Academic Publishing ISBN 13 :9783659479366 Total Pages :152 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (793 download)
Book Synopsis A Simple Visual-Based System Applied to Safe Navigation of Vehicles by : Arthur de Miranda Neto
Download or read book A Simple Visual-Based System Applied to Safe Navigation of Vehicles written by Arthur de Miranda Neto and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manuscript addresses the problem of obstacle avoidance for semi- and autonomous terrestrial platforms in dynamic and unknown environments. Based on monocular vision, it proposes a set of tools that continuously monitors the way forward, proving appropriate road information in real time. Taking into account the temporal coherence between consecutive frames, a new Dynamic Power Management methodology is proposed and applied to a robotic visual machine perception, which included a new environment observer method to optimize energy consumption used by a visual machine. A remarkable characteristic of these methodologies is its independence of the image acquiring system and of the robot itself. This real-time perception system has been evaluated from different test-banks and also from real data obtained by two intelligent platforms. In semi-autonomous tasks, tests were conducted at speeds above 100 Km/h. Autonomous displacements were also carried out successfully.
Book Synopsis Embedded visual perception system applied to safe navigation of vehicles by : Arthur De Miranda Neto
Download or read book Embedded visual perception system applied to safe navigation of vehicles written by Arthur De Miranda Neto and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les études développées dans ce projet doctoral ont concerné deux problématiques actuelles dans le domaine des systèmes robotiques pour la mobilité terrestre: premièrement, le problème associé à la navigation autonome et (semi)-autonome des véhicules terrestres dans un environnement inconnu ou partiellement connu. Cela constitue un enjeu qui prend de l'importance sur plusieurs fronts, notamment dans le domaine militaire. Récemment, l'agence DARPA1 aux États-Unis a soutenu plusieurs challenges sur cette problématique robotique; deuxièmement, le développement de systèmes d'assistance à la conduite basés sur la vision par ordinateur. Les acteurs de l'industrie automobile s'intéressent de plus en plus au développement de tels systèmes afin de rendre leurs produits plus sûrs et plus confortables à toutes conditions climatiques ou de terrain. De plus, grâce à l'électronique embarquée et à l’utilisation des systèmes visuels, une interaction avec l'environnement est possible, rendant les routes et les villes plus sûres pour les conducteurs et les piétons. 1) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA): est une agence du département de la Défense des États- Unis chargée de la recherche et développement des nouvelles technologies destinées à un usage militaire. 2) L'objectif principal de ce projet doctoral a été le développement de méthodologies qui permettent à des systèmes mobiles robotisés de naviguer de manière autonome dans un environnement inconnu ou partiellement connu, basées sur la perception visuelle fournie par un système de vision monoculaire embarqué. Un véhicule robotisé qui doit effectuer des tâches précises dans un environnement inconnu, doit avoir la faculté de percevoir son environnement proche et avoir un degré minimum d'interaction avec celui-ci. Nous avons proposé un système de vision embarquée préliminaire, où le temps de traitement de l'information (point critique dans des systèmes de vision utilisés en temps-réel) est optimisé par une méthode d'identification et de rejet d'informations redondantes. Suite à ces résultats, on a proposé une étude innovante par rapport à l ́état de l ́art en ce qui concerne la gestion énergétique du système de vision embarqué, également pour le calcul du temps de collision à partir d'images monoculaires. Ainsi, nous proposons le développement des travaux en étudiant une méthodologie robuste et efficace (utile en temps-réel) pour la détection de la route et l'extraction de primitives d'intérêts appliquée à la navigation autonome des véhicules terrestres. Nous présentons des résultats dans un environnement réel, dynamique et inconnu. Afin d'évaluer la performance de l'algorithme proposé, nous avons utilisé un banc d’essai urbain et réel. Pour la détection de la route et afin d'éviter les obstacles, les résultats sont présents en utilisant un véhicule réel afin d'évaluer la performance de l'algorithme dans un déplacement autonome.
Book Synopsis Vision-based Vehicle Guidance by : Ichiro Masaki
Download or read book Vision-based Vehicle Guidance written by Ichiro Masaki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing social interest in developing vision-based vehicle guidance systems for improving traffic safety and efficiency and the environment. Ex amples of vision-based vehicle guidance systems include collision warning systems, steering control systems for tracking painted lane marks, and speed control systems for preventing rear-end collisions. Like other guidance systems for aircraft and trains, these systems are ex pected to increase traffic safety significantly. For example, safety improve ments of aircraft landing processes after the introduction of automatic guidance systems have been reported to be 100 times better than prior to installment. Although the safety of human lives is beyond price, the cost for automatic guidance could be compensated by decreased insurance costs. It is becoming more important to increase traffic safety by decreasing the human driver's load in our society, especially with an increasing population of senior people who continue to drive. The second potential social benefit is the improvement of traffic efficiency by decreasing the spacing between vehicles without sacrificing safety. It is reported, for example, that four times the efficiency is expected if the spacing between cars is controlled automatically at 90 cm with a speed of 100 kmjh compared to today's typical manual driving. Although there are a lot of tech nical, psychological, and social issues to be solved before realizing the high density jhigh-speed traffic systems described here, highly efficient highways are becoming more important because of increasing traffic congestion.
Book Synopsis Vision Based Autonomous Robot Navigation by : Amitava Chatterjee
Download or read book Vision Based Autonomous Robot Navigation written by Amitava Chatterjee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-13 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is devoted to the theory and development of autonomous navigation of mobile robots using computer vision based sensing mechanism. The conventional robot navigation systems, utilizing traditional sensors like ultrasonic, IR, GPS, laser sensors etc., suffer several drawbacks related to either the physical limitations of the sensor or incur high cost. Vision sensing has emerged as a popular alternative where cameras can be used to reduce the overall cost, maintaining high degree of intelligence, flexibility and robustness. This book includes a detailed description of several new approaches for real life vision based autonomous navigation algorithms and SLAM. It presents the concept of how subgoal based goal-driven navigation can be carried out using vision sensing. The development concept of vision based robots for path/line tracking using fuzzy logic is presented, as well as how a low-cost robot can be indigenously developed in the laboratory with microcontroller based sensor systems. The book describes successful implementation of integration of low-cost, external peripherals, with off-the-shelf procured robots. An important highlight of the book is that it presents a detailed, step-by-step sample demonstration of how vision-based navigation modules can be actually implemented in real life, under 32-bit Windows environment. The book also discusses the concept of implementing vision based SLAM employing a two camera based system.
Book Synopsis Visual Navigation for an Autonomous Mobile Vehicle by : Kevin Robert Peterson
Download or read book Visual Navigation for an Autonomous Mobile Vehicle written by Kevin Robert Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation by : Adam Weintrit
Download or read book Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation written by Adam Weintrit and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The TransNav 2013 Symposium held at the Gdynia Maritime University, Poland in June 2013 has brought together a wide range of participants from all over the world. The program has offered a variety of contributions, allowing to look at many aspects of the navigational safety from various different points of view. Topics presented and discussed at th
Book Synopsis Navigation and Intelligent Transportation Systems by : Ronald K Jurgen
Download or read book Navigation and Intelligent Transportation Systems written by Ronald K Jurgen and published by SAE International. This book was released on 1998-09-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigation and Intelligent Transportation Systems contains 40 papers covering the technical and functional aspects of these systems including: 3D mapping, route guidance, cellular phone access, electronic compasses, and the history and future of navigation systems. The book also covers the important role of navigation in Intelligent Transportation Systems concerned with traffic management, traveler information, vehicle control systems, commercial vehicle operations, and public and rural transportation systems. The book concludes with a chapter on the Intelligent Vehicle Initiative, a joint program between the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Federal Highway Administration, and the Federal Transit Administration.
Book Synopsis Algorithm & SoC Design for Automotive Vision Systems by : Jaeseok Kim
Download or read book Algorithm & SoC Design for Automotive Vision Systems written by Jaeseok Kim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emerging trend in the automobile industry is its convergence with information technology (IT). Indeed, it has been estimated that almost 90% of new automobile technologies involve IT in some form. Smart driving technologies that improve safety as well as green fuel technologies are quite representative of the convergence between IT and automobiles. The smart driving technologies include three key elements: sensing of driving environments, detection of objects and potential hazards and the generation of driving control signals including warning signals. Although radar-based systems are primarily used for sensing the driving environments, the camera has gained importance in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). This book covers system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs—including both algorithms and hardware—related with image sensing and object detection by using the camera for smart driving systems. It introduces a variety of algorithms such as lens correction, super resolution, image enhancement and object detections from the images captured by low-cost vehicle camera. This is followed by implementation issues such as SoC architecture, hardware accelerator, software development environment and reliability techniques for automobile vision systems. This book is aimed for the new and practicing engineers in automotive and chip-design industries to provide some overall guidelines for the development of automotive vision systems. It will also help graduate students understand and get started for the research work in this field.
Book Synopsis Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering by : Yuhua Luo
Download or read book Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering written by Yuhua Luo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Computer Vision and Imaging in Intelligent Transportation Systems by : Robert P. Loce
Download or read book Computer Vision and Imaging in Intelligent Transportation Systems written by Robert P. Loce and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acts as single source reference providing readers with an overview of how computer vision can contribute to the different applications in the field of road transportation This book presents a survey of computer vision techniques related to three key broad problems in the roadway transportation domain: safety, efficiency, and law enforcement. The individual chapters present significant applications within those problem domains, each presented in a tutorial manner, describing the motivation for and benefits of the application, and a description of the state of the art. Key features: Surveys the applications of computer vision techniques to road transportation system for the purposes of improving safety and efficiency and to assist law enforcement. Offers a timely discussion as computer vision is reaching a point of being useful in the field of transportation systems. Available as an enhanced eBook with video demonstrations to further explain the concepts discussed in the book, as well as links to publically available software and data sets for testing and algorithm development. The book will benefit the many researchers, engineers and practitioners of computer vision, digital imaging, automotive and civil engineering working in intelligent transportation systems. Given the breadth of topics covered, the text will present the reader with new and yet unconceived possibilities for application within their communities.
Book Synopsis Urban Environment Perception and Navigation Using Robotic Vision by : Giovani Bernardes Vitor
Download or read book Urban Environment Perception and Navigation Using Robotic Vision written by Giovani Bernardes Vitor and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of autonomous vehicles capable of getting around on urban roads can provide important benefits in reducing accidents, in increasing life comfort and also in providing cost savings. Intelligent vehicles for example often base their decisions on observations obtained from various sensors such as LIDAR, GPS and Cameras. Actually, camera sensors have been receiving large attention due to they are cheap, easy to employ and provide rich data information. Inner-city environments represent an interesting but also very challenging scenario in this context,where the road layout may be very complex, the presence of objects such as trees, bicycles,cars might generate partial observations and also these observations are often noisy or even missing due to heavy occlusions. Thus, perception process by nature needs to be able to dea lwith uncertainties in the knowledge of the world around the car. While highway navigation and autonomous driving using a prior knowledge of the environment have been demonstrating successfully,understanding and navigating general inner-city scenarios with little prior knowledge remains an unsolved problem. In this thesis, this perception problem is analyzed for driving in the inner-city environments associated with the capacity to perform a safe displacement basedon decision-making process in autonomous navigation. It is designed a perception system that allows robotic-cars to drive autonomously on roads, with out the need to adapt the infrastructure,without requiring previous knowledge of the environment and considering the presenceof dynamic objects such as cars. It is proposed a novel method based on machine learning to extract the semantic context using a pair of stereo images, which is merged in an evidential grid to model the uncertainties of an unknown urban environment, applying the Dempster-Shafer theory. To make decisions in path-planning, it is applied the virtual tentacle approach to generate possible paths starting from ego-referenced car and based on it, two news strategies are proposed. First one, a new strategy to select the correct path to better avoid obstacles and tofollow the local task in the context of hybrid navigation, and second, a new closed loop control based on visual odometry and virtual tentacle is modeled to path-following execution. Finally, a complete automotive system integrating the perception, path-planning and control modules are implemented and experimentally validated in real situations using an experimental autonomous car, where the results show that the developed approach successfully performs a safe local navigation based on camera sensors.
Book Synopsis Intelligent Autonomous Systems 13 by : Emanuele Menegatti
Download or read book Intelligent Autonomous Systems 13 written by Emanuele Menegatti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 1669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the latest research accomplishments, innovations, and visions in the field of robotics as presented at the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS), held in Padua in July 2014, by leading researchers, engineers, and practitioners from across the world. The contents amply confirm that robots, machines, and systems are rapidly achieving intelligence and autonomy, mastering more and more capabilities such as mobility and manipulation, sensing and perception, reasoning, and decision making. A wide range of research results and applications are covered, and particular attention is paid to the emerging role of autonomous robots and intelligent systems in industrial production, which reflects their maturity and robustness. The contributions have been selected through a rigorous peer-review process and contain many exciting and visionary ideas that will further galvanize the research community, spurring novel research directions. The series of biennial IAS conferences commenced in 1986 and represents a premiere event in robotics.
Book Synopsis Autonomous Robots Research Advances by : Weihua Yang
Download or read book Autonomous Robots Research Advances written by Weihua Yang and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autonomous robots are robots which can perform desired tasks in unstructured environments without continuous human guidance. Many kinds of robots have some degree of autonomy. Different robots can be autonomous in different ways. A high degree of autonomy is particularly desirable in fields such as space exploration, where communication delays and interruptions are unavoidable. Some modern factory robots are "autonomous" within the strict confines of their direct environment. The exact orientation and position of the next object of work and (in the more advanced factories) even the type of object and the required task must be determined. This can vary unpredictably (at least from the robot's point of view). One important area of robotics research is to enable the robot to cope with its environment whether this be on land, underwater, in the air, underground, or in space. This book presents the latest research from around the globe.
Download or read book Sensor Fusion written by Ciza Thomas and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensor Fusion - Foundation and Applications comprehensively covers the foundation and applications of sensor fusion. This book provides some novel ideas, theories, and solutions related to the research areas in the field of sensor fusion. The book explores some of the latest practices and research works in the area of sensor fusion. The book contains chapters with different methods of sensor fusion for different engineering as well as non-engineering applications. Advanced applications of sensor fusion in the areas of mobile robots, automatic vehicles, airborne threats, agriculture, medical field and intrusion detection are covered in this book. Sufficient evidences and analyses have been provided in the chapter to show the effectiveness of sensor fusion in various applications. This book would serve as an invaluable reference for professionals involved in various applications of sensor fusion.
Book Synopsis Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports by :
Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Advisory Committee on Technology and Society Publisher :National Academies Press ISBN 13 :9780309037860 Total Pages :1298 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (378 download)
Book Synopsis Cities and Their Vital Systems by : Advisory Committee on Technology and Society
Download or read book Cities and Their Vital Systems written by Advisory Committee on Technology and Society and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities and Their Vital Systems asks basic questions about the longevity, utility, and nature of urban infrastructures; analyzes how they grow, interact, and change; and asks how, when, and at what cost they should be replaced. Among the topics discussed are problems arising from increasing air travel and airport congestion; the adequacy of water supplies and waste treatment; the impact of new technologies on construction; urban real estate values; and the field of "telematics," the combination of computers and telecommunications that makes money machines and national newspapers possible.
Book Synopsis Selected papers from the 2nd International Symposium on UAVs, Reno, U.S.A. June 8-10, 2009 by : Kimon P. Valavanis
Download or read book Selected papers from the 2nd International Symposium on UAVs, Reno, U.S.A. June 8-10, 2009 written by Kimon P. Valavanis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade, signi?cant changes have occurred in the ?eld of vehicle motion planning, and for UAVs in particular. UAV motion planning is especially dif?cult due to several complexities not considered by earlier planning strategies: the - creased importance of differential constraints, atmospheric turbulence which makes it impossible to follow a pre-computed plan precisely, uncertainty in the vehicle state, and limited knowledge about the environment due to limited sensor capabilities. These differences have motivated the increased use of feedback and other control engineering techniques for motion planning. The lack of exact algorithms for these problems and dif?culty inherent in characterizing approximation algorithms makes it impractical to determine algorithm time complexity, completeness, and even soundness. This gap has not yet been addressed by statistical characterization of experimental performance of algorithms and benchmarking. Because of this overall lack of knowledge, it is dif?cult to design a guidance system, let alone choose the algorithm. Throughout this paper we keep in mind some of the general characteristics and requirements pertaining to UAVs. A UAV is typically modeled as having velocity and acceleration constraints (and potentially the higher-order differential constraints associated with the equations of motion), and the objective is to guide the vehicle towards a goal through an obstacle ?eld. A UAV guidance problem is typically characterized by a three-dimensional problem space, limited information about the environment, on-board sensors with limited range, speed and acceleration constraints, and uncertainty in vehicle state and sensor data.
