Visual tracking & servoing

Description

Visual tracking of objects is one the several capabilities that have the human beings. Even though it is performing in an unconscious way, it is tightly linked with many of the tasks we do.
At the present time, introducing these capabilities in artificial visual systems is one of the most interesting areas to research in computer vision and robotics.
Our effort is focused in the development of algorithms and techniques that allows an automatic adaptation of visual systems to changing environments.
With the purpose of making a complete vision-based control system, it is necessary to integrate several research areas such as visual matching, visual tracking and visual servoing.
The first step towards this integration consists of the use of model vision-based control techniques. These techniques have been designed to control a robot with respect to objects of any shape. Indeed, the system proposed have been designed for positioning a robot by tracking specific visual features (e.g. interest points, straight lines, contours).

Entries:
Smooth and Accurate control of multiple Shape Memory Alloys based actuators via low cost embedded hardware.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IROS 2012, Vilamoura, Portugal
A. Flores D. Copaci D. Blanco L. Moreno
A design methodology to allow scalability of EAP materials as actuators
3rd World Congress on Biomimetics, Artificial Muscles & Nano-Bio, 2006, Laussane, Switzerland
D. Fernandez L. Moreno
Characterization of IPMC using standard testing methods
Smart Structures and Materials., 2006, San Diego, USA
D. Fernandez L. Moreno
Actuator design using Electroactive materials
Smart Sensors Actuators and MEMS II. Microtechnologies for the New Millenium. , 2005, Sevilla, Spain
D. Fernandez L. Moreno
Towards standarization of EAP actuator test procedures
Smart Structures and Materials, San Diego, USA
D. Fernandez L. Moreno
A bio-inspired EAP actuator design methodology
Smart Structures and Materials, 2005, San Diego, USA
D. Fernandez L. Moreno
Electroactive Polymer Actuator design for space applications
8th ESA Workshop on Advanced Space Technologies for Robotics and AutomationASTRA 2004, 2004, ESTEC, Noordwik, Netherlands
D. Fernandez L. Moreno

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