Towards real-time stereovision systems for planetary missions
Abstract
Stereovision algorithms applicable to planetary mobile vehicles are considered. Stereovision systems have an important role to play in planetary exploration from digital elevation modeling of planetary surfaces to navigation of semiautonomous vehicles and control of robotic manipulators. Real time stereovision systems require very high processing power which can only be met by a heterogeneous multiprocessor processing architecture. The current and future processing technologies are examined together with the constraints on space-based electronic systems. The integrated multiprocessor system being developed for digital signal and image processing applications is described.
- Publication:
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Missions, Technologies, and Design of Planetary Mobile Vehicles
- Pub Date:
- January 1993
- Bibcode:
- 1993dpmv.book..483P
- Keywords:
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- Computer Vision;
- Multiprocessing (Computers);
- Onboard Data Processing;
- Planetary Surfaces;
- Real Time Operation;
- Robotics;
- Roving Vehicles;
- Stereoscopic Vision;
- Airborne/Spaceborne Computers;
- Algorithms;
- Architecture (Computers);
- Digital Systems;
- Image Processing;
- Space Exploration;
- Surface Navigation;
- Mechanical Engineering