Robots need sensors to operate properly. Using a single image sensor, various aspects of a robot operating in its environment can be measured or monitored. Over the past few years, image sensors have improved a lot: frame rate and resolution have increased, while prices have fallen. As a result, data output has increased and in a number of applications data transfer to a processing unit has become the limiting factor for performance. Local processing in the sensor is one way of reducing data transfer. A report on the Vision in Robotics and Mechatronics project.
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Jaap van de Loosdrecht, Johan van Althuis, Jos Gunsing, Daniƫl Telgen, Mark Stappers and Peter Klijn
Published in MIKRONIEK nr 5 2013