2000 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Study of Visual Servoing Robot Control without High Level Image Processing Technique
| Project/Area Number |
10555141
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B).
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 展開研究 |
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| Research Field |
Control engineering
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
DEGUCHI Koichiro Tohoku Univ., Grad School of Inform. Sci., Professor, 大学院・情報科学研究科, 教授 (30107544)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
OKATANI Takayuki Tohoku Univ., Grad. School of Inform. Sci., Research Associate, 大学院・情報科学研究科, 助手 (00312637)
HONTANI Hidekata Univ. of Tokyo, School of Eng., Research Associate, 大学院・工学系研究科, 助手 (60282688)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 2000
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| Keywords | Robot Control / Computer Vision / Visual Servoing / Image Processing / Active Vision / Image Compression / Motion Image Analysis / Behavior Control |
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| Research Abstract |
In this research, a general scheme to represent the relation between dynamic images and camera and/or object motions is developed for applications to visual control of robots.
We consider the case where a moving camera observes moving objects in a static scene. The camera first obtains images of the objects moving within the scene. Then, the possible combinations of the camera and the objects' poses and the obtained images are not arbitrary but constrained to each other. Here we represent this constraint as a lower dimensional hyper surface in the product space of the whole combination of their motion control parameters and image data. The visual control is interpreted as to find a path on this surface leading to their poses where a given goal image will be obtained. In this paper, we propose a visual control method to utilize tangential properties of this surface. First, we represent images with a composition of a small number of "eigen images" by using K-L (Karhunen-Loeve) expansion. Then, we consider to reconstruct the eigen space (the eigen image space) to achieve efficient and straightforward controls. Such reconstruction of the space results in the constraint surface being mostly flat within the eigen space. By this method, visual control of robots in a complex configuration is achieved without image processing to extract and correspond image features in dynamic images. The method also does not need camera or hand-eye calibrations. Many experimental results of visual servoing with the proposed method has been done, and they show the feasibility and applicability of our newly proposed to a simultaneous control of camera self-motion and object motions.
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