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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Colias IV: The Affordable Micro Robot Platform with Bio-inspired Vision

Authors : Cheng Hu, Qinbing Fu, Shigang Yue

Published in: Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Vision is one of the most important sensing modalities for robots and has been realized on mostly large platforms. However for micro robots which are commonly utilized in swarm robotic studies, the visual ability is seldom applied or with reduced functions/resolution, due to the high demanding on the computation power. This research has proposed the low-cost micro ground robot Colias IV, which is particularly designed to meet the requirements to allow embedded vision based tasks on-board, such as bio-inspired collision detection neural networks. Numerous of successful approaches have demonstrated that the proposed micro robot Colias IV to be a feasible platform for introducing visual based algorithms into swarm robotics.

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Metadata
Title
Colias IV: The Affordable Micro Robot Platform with Bio-inspired Vision
Authors
Cheng Hu
Qinbing Fu
Shigang Yue
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-96727-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-96728-8

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96728-8_17

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