Highly functional and versatile camera platform for a multipurpose robotic vehicle

Dai Hyun Kim; Andrew A. Kostrzewski; Jenkin C. Chen; William Y. Liu; Freddie Shing-Hong Lin

doi:10.1117/12.139056

12 January 1993 Highly functional and versatile camera platform for a multipurpose robotic vehicle

Dai Hyun Kim, Andrew A. Kostrzewski, Jenkin C. Chen, William Y. Liu, Freddie Shing-Hong Lin

Proceedings Volume 1771, Applications of Digital Image Processing XV; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.139056
Event: San Diego '92, 1992, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

A highly functional and versatile camera platform for a multi-purpose robotic vehicle utilizing a novel modular approach is presented. The platform uses only three CCD camera, four computer-controlled rotation stages and three modular optical imaging systems to provide both a stereo vision mode at any desired viewing angle and a panoramic vision mode with a 180° nonoverlapping field-of-view. The panoramic view from the imaging system of each module is collected by one of three mirrors and transmitted collectively towards a corrresponding CCD camera. Stereo vision mode is accessed by aligning any two of the three modules in parallel using their respective rotation stages. When the entire assembly is rotated by another rotation stsge, any desired viewing angle is obtained.

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Dai Hyun Kim, Andrew A. Kostrzewski, Jenkin C. Chen, William Y. Liu, and Freddie Shing-Hong Lin "Highly functional and versatile camera platform for a multipurpose robotic vehicle", Proc. SPIE 1771, Applications of Digital Image Processing XV, (12 January 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.139056

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