Feasibility of Real-Time Visual Control of Robots

一项探索性的工作正在进行中，以定义使用一种新的平行视觉机器-管道计算机-实时基于视觉的机器人控制的能力。这将涉及新的挑战，特别是需要检测和跟踪移动物体作为控制过程的一部分。这将需要扩展视觉处理系统的能力，并与要控制的机械臂集成。这项研究应该揭示出在以后的机器人实时、基于视觉的自适应控制工作中需要解决的潜在问题。在完成这一初步探索之前，很难为更重大的长期研究工作提出有意义的建议。

An exploratory effort is underway to define the capabilities for vision-based robot control in real-time using one of the new parallel vision machines, the PIPE computer. This will involve new challenges, notably the need to detect and track moving objects as part of the control process. This will require extending the capabilities of the vision-processing system and integration with a robot arm to be controlled. The study should reveal potential problems that will need to be addressed in working later toward real-time, vision-based adaptive control of robots. Until this preliminary exploration is done, it would be difficult to produce a meaningful proposal for the more major long-term research effort.