Parallel Laboratory for Real Time Vision and Robotics

该奖项提供的支持将有助于罗切斯特 研究人员追求实时主动视觉的目标。 基于 他们的经验与并行视觉算法的一般和 专用硬件，他们将进入下一个阶段：集成 将单个问题的并行解决方案转化为统一的解决方案， 一个单一的复杂问题 为了促进这项研究，该奖项将 帮助他们开发一个实时视觉的平行实验室， 由四个关键部件组成：一个“头”，包含用于视觉输入的摄像头， 一个机器人手臂或“脖子”，支持和移动“头”，一个特殊的 用于高带宽、低水平视觉的专用并行处理器 处理，以及一个通用的并行处理器，用于高级 愿景和规划。 将研究的新研究方向 使用实验室包括异构并行，分层 自适应控制的感觉-运动系统，合作的象征 规划与现实世界的行动，操作系统的可密封MIMD 架构和并行编程环境。 实验室 也将有助于统一大规模并行架构的研究， 视觉、规划、机器人和并行软件系统。

The support provided by this award will assist the Rochester researchers to pursue the goal of real-time active vision. Based on their experience with parallel vision algorithms on both general and special purpose hardware, they will move to the next stage: integration of parallel solutions to individual problems into a unified solution to a single complex problem. To facilitate this research the award will help them develop a parallel laboratory for real-time vision consisting of four key components: a "head," containing cameras for visual input, a robot arm or "neck" that supports and moves the "head," a special purpose parallel processor for high-bandwidth, low-level vision processing, and a general purpose parallel processor for high-level vision and planning. New research directions that will be investigated using the laboratory include heterogeneous parallelism, hierarchical adaptive control for sensory-motor systems, cooperation of symbolic planning with real-world action, operating systems for sealable MIMD architectures, and parallel programming environments. The laboratory will also serve to unify research in massively parallel architectures, vision, planning, robotics, and parallel software systems.