Visual Integrated Smart Sensor for Real-Time Applications

VISTA - 8867

Keywords time-to-crash detection, visual sensor microsystems, robotics

Start Date: 02-NOV-93 / Duration: 36 months

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Objectives and Approach

The main objective of VISTA is to design and build a self-consistent, intrinsically robust, integrated smart sensor microsystem for time-to-crash and motion computation, with real-time performances. The VISTA sensor microsystem will be based on a passive sensing technology (sparse optical flow computation and 1D correlation) and on specialised analog and digital VLSI circuits.

Specific objectives of the project are to:

• develop a machine vision algorithm for time-to-crash computation, well suited for VLSI implementations;
• design and build an analog imaging chip for image acquisition and early vision tasks computation;
• design and build a digital correlator chip, to be integrated on the same substrate with the imaging chip;
• to build a small, ruggedised, special-purpose microcamera embedding the VISTA microsensor.

The following two demonstrators will be used to test and validate the results:

• a collision avoidance system for industrial robots;
• an obstacle detection and avoidance system for an autonomous mobile platform.

CONTACT POINT

Ing. G. Creanza
Tecnopolis CSATA Novus Ortus
PO Box 775
I - 70010 Valenzano Bari
tel: + 39/ 80-8770-515
fax: + 39/ 80-8770-247
email: creanza@rob.csata.it

Participants

TECNOPOLIS CSATA NOVUS ORTUS - I - C
IMEC - B - P
BRDI - F - P
METEOR - I - P
KRYPTON - B - P

VISTA - 8867, December 1993

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