Localization of a mobile robot using images of a moving target

Abstract

In this paper, the localization of a mobile robot using images of a moving target is introduced. Typical objects are stored in the database for the localization of the mobile robot. With a fixed camera, a perspective camera model and a given object database, an image frame can provide the pose (distance and orientation) of the object with respect to the camera. Utilizing the consecutive image frames and motion estimation technology, the relative pose of the object with respect to the camera can be obtained accurately; and during the process, calibration of camera with respect to the world frame, i.e. localization of a mobile robot, is gradually performed. This localization scheme is demonstrated by the experiments.