Rover with Active Camera

Rover(1999.9-)

Pan and tilt axses of camera base are actively controlled by using rate-gyro. sensor and vision. Publications

J. Ding, H. Kondou, H. Kimura, Y. Hada and K. Takase, "Robust object tracking of irregular terrain vehicle", Proc. of IEEE/RSJ IROS2002, Lausanne, pp.147-152, 2002.10 (PDF[1.8M])

Movie (2000 Jan.)
The rover is going over natural irregular terrain with the camera base actively controller for visual tracking.

view from the outside video camera (MPEG 3.9M)
view from the camera mounted on the rover (MPEG 2.6M)

Robot Specifications

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controlled by RT-Linux on PC