The confluence of vision and control : [Block Island Workshop on Vision and Control, held from June 23-27, 1997 on Block Island, Rhode Island

The collection of articles presented here, emerged from the Block Island Workshop on Vision and Control that brought together pioneering researchers from around the world. Discussions of new theoretical developments and the empirical validation of techniques and applications, are recorded in this book. Over recent years, robotics, computer vision and control theory researchers have addressed theoretical issues of: real-time vision, visual tracking, the active focus of attention and vision-based control of motion. At the same time, these theoretical insights have been used in applications such as: vision-based autonomous driving, vision-based grasping, human-computer interfaces, control of MEMS systems and medical image processing. From this book the reader will gain an overview of the latest thinking in vision and control, as well as an introduction to many of the techniques used in this area. Research Issues In Vision And Control / Gregory D. Hager, David J. Kriegman, And A. Stephen Morse -- Visual Homing : Surfing On The Epipoles / Ronen Basri, Ehud Rivlin, And Ilan Shimshoni -- Role Of Active Vision In Optimizing Visual Feedback For Robot Control / Rajeev Sharma -- An Alternative Approach For Image-plane Control Of Robots / Michael Seelinger, Steven B. Skaar, And Matthew Robinson -- Potential Problems Of Stability And Convergence In Image-based And Position-based Visual Servoing / François Chaumette -- What Can Be Done With An Uncalibrated Stereo System? / João Hespanha [and Others] -- Visual Tracking Of Points As Estimation On The Unit Sphere / Alessandro Chiuso And Giorgio Picci -- Extending Visual Servoing Techniques To Nonholonomic Mobile Robots / Dimitris P. Tsakiris, Patrick Rives, And Claude Samson -- A Lagrangian Formulation Of Nonholonomic Path Following / Ruggero Frezza, Giorgio Picci, And Stefano Soatto -- Vision Guided Navigation For A Nonholonomic Mobile Robot / Yi Ma, Jana Kovescká, And Shankar Sastry -- Design, Delay And Performance In Gaze Control : Engineering And Biological Approaches / Peter Corke -- The Separation Of Photometry And Geometry Via Active Vision / Ruzena Bajcsy And Max Mintz -- Vision-based System Identification And State Estimation / William A. Wolovich And Mustafa Unel -- Visual Tracking, Active Vision, And Gradient Flows / Allen Tannenbaum And Anthony Yezzi, Jr. -- Visual Control Of Grasping / Billibon H. Yoshimi And Peter K. Allen -- Dynamic Vision Merging Control Engineering And Ai Methods / Ernst D. Dickmanns -- Real-time Pose Estimation And Control For Convoying Applications / R.l. Carceroni [and Others] -- Visual Routines For Vehicle Control / Garbis Salgian And Dana H. Ballard --microassembly Of Micro-electro-mechanical Systems (mems) Using Visual Servoing / John Feddema And Ronald W. Simon -- The Block Island Workshop : Summary Report / Gregory D. Hager [and Others]. David J. Kriegman, Gregory D. Hager, And A. Stephen Morse (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References.