AUTOMATIC OBJECT RECOGNITION UNDER REMOTE CONTROL THROUGH VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNIQUES

Description

The concept of robotics has evolved towards autonomous mobile systems, which are capable of operating on their own in unfamiliar and partially changing environments without the need for supervision. In many of these cases, especially those intended for applications that can be classified as critical due to their danger, it is mandatory to have a remote control station that allows monitoring the status of the autonomous agent, monitoring its evolution through the environment and avoiding the As far as possible, in this way, any problem that may arise, not only due to the action of the agent on the environment, but also due to the damage that the agent may suffer. In these situations it is especially important to have a control system that acts quickly, a difficult question if all the processing is centered on a single computer or if it is left practically in the hands of the human operator. Among the tasks that must be carried out by a mobile autonomous agent, it is possibly those related to computer vision that require the greatest processing capacity.
Thus, the present invention consists of an object recognition system consisting of a mobile autonomous agent equipped with image capture and processing systems, and an external station where, using a virtual reality equipment consisting of glasses and a glove, It can control the visual perception system of the mobile agent. The recognition process is, however, automatic and is based on projecting the shape of the found object on a fixed algebraic basis. That is, although the external station allows the identification of new objects and directing the agent's attention to a certain region of space, the agent performs the extraction and characterization of the possible objects present in his visual field in an unsupervised manner.

Advantages

Among the advantages of the present invention are:
• The system achieves remote control of an autonomous agent in order for it to automatically recognize the objects present in its environment.
• This recognition can, in turn, be carried out in an externally supervised way, allowing an operator to control it.

Uses and Applications

The present invention has its application to carry out explorations and identifications of objects in environments with difficult access or in situations in which it is convenient to exercise remote control.