Mobile Robot Navigation by a Distributed Vision System.

Abstract

This paper proposes a general infrastructure for robot navigation in an outdoor environment. The infrastructure, called a Distributed Vision System, consists of vision agents connected with a computer network, monitors the environment, maintains the environment models, and provides various information for robots by organizing communication between the vision agents. As the first step of our research, we have developed a prototype of the distributed vision system for navigating mobile robots. The experimental results show that the system has an ability to navigate the robots in a complex environment.