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From: crumley@bell.ecn.purdue.edu (John C. Crumley)
Subject: Re: ATR (Automatic Target Recognition)
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Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 17:21:00 GMT
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sws@tora.RoBIN.de (Steffen W. Schilke) writes:

>for a robot project I am looking out for pointers to Automatic
>Target Recognition (a.k.a point, shoot and forget ;-) Programs 
>(source, ftp-able), Papers or books.

>I will have a robot with an CCD Camera and get a time series of B/W 
>(Gray-scale) pictures. Where I have to detect an object.

We have a system here which tracks a hovercraft moving on a table
top and intercepts it using a planar 2R manipulator.  Vision feedback
is used to track the hovercraft.  I believe "interception" involves
matching both position and velocity.

If you want more info, contact me,

john

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Automation Lab
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Purdue University
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