Project Type: Sensor interfacing, Pattern Recognition, Hardware integration, Robotics
Advisors: Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, Steve Ortiz
The objective of this project is to design and integrate an omni-directional vision system for mobile robot navigation and self-localization. An omnidirectional imaging system consists of a CCD array coupled with a spherical or hyperbolic mirror that generates a 360-degree view of the surroundings. Fish-eye lens could also been used to generate a wide field of view for the camera. It is expected that the system will employ a small and inexpensive camera, such as the CMUcam system.