Integration of visual cues for active tracking of an end-effector

We describe and test how information from multiple sources can be combined into a robust visual servoing system. The main objective is integration of visual cues to provide smooth pursuit in a cluttered environment using a minimum or no calibration. For that purpose, voting schema and fuzzy logic command fusion are investigated. It is shown that the integration permits detection and rejection of measurement outliers.

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