Modular Vision Sensor Brick
Anjana Poduri
 Imaging, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems Laboratory
 The University of Tennessee
[Motivation] [Research Objectives] [Technical Approach] [Results] [Publications]
Motivation:  

Video Sensor Brick is a completely modular and independent system that best suits the for robot navigation, surveillance applications. The brick is modular at every level and compact which would make it easy to handle and even mount it on any kind of robotic platform. The concept of brick with its generic design allows us to use it for various applications. The Video Sensor Brick can be used for the purpose of robot path planning, and areas that require continuous inspection and monitoring. The main application considered while designing the brick is under vehicle inspection. The design is to be made to suit for this application as it has to low profile model and be mounted on a robotic platform that would go under a vehicle and capture the video sequence of scenes.

Objectives: 

The brick design with the features of modularity and self sufficiency will open a wide variety of applications in sensor based technology.  The sensor brick has four blocks acquisition block which is the sensor for data acquisition, preprocessing block to perform basic low level image processing operations, communication block   The brick is made in a way that, any block of the acquisition or preprocessing or communication could be removed and replaced with another component that would suit the task the robot is assigned. Moreover, the self-sufficient capability allows the Vision Sensor brick to be simply a plug-and-play device to the robot.

This project deals with designing, building, and packaging of a Vision Sensor Brick. The brick concept was introduced to ensure modularity and easy operation, as well as maintenance. The various blocks of the brick are: (1) acquisition block, which is the camera to acquire data Color Dome Quad Camera DQ205 from Clover Electronics, (2) preprocessor block, which to perform the low level processing operations ASUS P4P800-VM motherboard with an Intel 4 processor, (3) communication block, which consists of Wireless LinkSys WMP54G with 802.11g standard, and (4) power supply block, which makes the whole brick self-sufficient is a standard battery Panasonic LC RA1212P Lead Acid Battery of 12V.

 

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Publications:

No publications currently available for this project.

This research is being conducted at the IRIS Lab by Anjana Poduri under the supervision of Dr.Mongi A. Abidi.



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