RTSVC: Real-time system for visual control of robots

This article presents an image processing system that can work in hard real-time. Compared with systems that use the traditional multiprocessor architecture approach, this computer system takes advantage on recent technological advances and it is designed to work with a single processor PC under RTLinux. Its programming environment is similar to C programming language and it offers a friendly graphical user interface. The performance of the system is illustrated by means of experiments applied to visual guidance of mobile robots via velocity fields using a fixed high-speed camera. The experiments were carried out with a strict sampling frequency of 100 Hz. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Imaging Syst Technol, 18, 251–256, 2008; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com).

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