Addresses the problem of performing navigation with a mobile robot using active vision exploring the image sphere properties in a stereo divergent configuration. The navigational process is supported by the control of the robot's steering and forward movements just using visual information as feedback. The steering control solution is based on the difference between signals of visual motion flow computed in images on different positions of a virtual image sphere. The majority of solutions based on motion flow and proposed until now, were usually very unstable because they normally compute other parameters from the motion flow. In our case the control is based directly on the different between motion flow signals on different images. Those multiple images are obtained by small mirrors, that simulate cameras positioned in different positions on the image sphere. The control algorithm described in this work is based on a discrete-event approach to generate a control feedback signal for navigation of an autonomous robot with an active vision system.

This article describes one solution for the problem of pursuit of objects moving on a plane by using a mobile robot and an active vision system. The solution deals with the interaction of different control systems using visual feedback and it is accomplished by the implementation of a visual gaze holding process interacting cooperatively with the control of the trajectory of a mobile robot. These two systems are integrated to follow a moving object at constant distance and orientation with respect to the mobile robot. The orientation and the position of the active vision system running a gaze holding process give the feedback signals to the control used to pursuit the target in real-time. The paper addresses the problems of visual fixation, visual smooth pursuit, navigation using visual feedback and compensation for system's movements. The algorithms for visual processing and control are described in the article. The mechanisms of cooperation between the different control and visual algorithms are also described. The final solution is a system able to operate at approximately human walking rates as the experimental results show in the paper.

This article describes one solution for the problem of pursuit by using a mobile robot and an active vision system. The solution deals with the interaction of different control systems using visual feedback and it is accomplished by the implementation of a visual gaze holding process interacting cooperatively with the control of the trajectory of a mobile robot. These two systems are integrated to follow a moving object at constant distance and orientation with respect to the mobile robot. The orientation and the position of the active vision system running a gaze holding process give the feedback signals to the control used to pursuit the target in real-time. The mechanisms of cooperation between the different control and visual algorithms are described. The final solution is a system able to operate at approximately human walking rates.