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B. Tech Project (1999-2000)


Students:

Vaibhav Vaish
Avneesh Sud

Former Students:

Shree Prakash Rahul, Juhee Jain (1997-98)
Amit Garg, Deepak Verma (1998-99)
  

Research Scholar:

Sumantra Dutta Roy

Supervisor:

Dr. Subhashis Banerjee

Abstract:

Our project involves developing a robot navigation system, that is, a system in in which a robot, with mounted cameras, can detect obstructions, and traverse a path avoiding them, from its starting position to the designated destination.

The first part of our work involves getting familiar with the existing system, which does not work reliably, and making it robust. This would require some debugging of existing code, and studying more accurate methods of camera calibration. The target is to have a more reliable system, with hand-eye calibration and visual servoing built in.

Along with the experimentation, we are also reading new approaches to the problem, which would dispense with camera calibration. We are investigating pose estimation from inner camera invariants.

Avneesh Sud
Vaibhav Vaish
8/3/2000