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Visual Servoing

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Vision-based control; Visual feedback

Definition

Visual servoing refers to the use of visual data as input of real-time closed-loop control schemes for controlling the motion of a dynamic system, a robot typically. It can be defined as sensor-based control from a vision sensor and relies on techniques from image processing, computer vision, and control theory.

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Background

Basically, visual servoing consists in using the data provided by one or several cameras so that a dynamic system achieves a task specified by a set of visual constraints [12, 3]. Such systems are usually robot arms or mobile robots, but can also be virtual robots, or even a virtual camera. A large variety of positioning tasks, or target tracking tasks, can be considered by controlling from one to all the degrees of freedom (DoF) of the system. Whatever the sensor configuration,...

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  1. Inria, Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA, Rennes, France

    François Chaumette

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Chaumette, F. (2020). Visual Servoing. In: Computer Vision. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03243-2_281-1

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