TY - CHAP AU - Nils Axel Andersen AU - Jens Christian Andersen AU - Enis Bayramoglu AU - Ole Ravn ED - Ales Ude Y1 - 2010-03-01 PY - 2010 T1 - Visual Navigation for Mobile Robots N2 - The purpose of robot vision is to enable robots to perceive the external world in order to perform a large range of tasks such as navigation, visual servoing for object tracking and manipulation, object recognition and categorization, surveillance, and higher-level decision-making. Among different perceptual modalities, vision is arguably the most important one. It is therefore an essential building block of a cognitive robot. This book presents a snapshot of the wide variety of work in robot vision that is currently going on in different parts of the world. BT - Robot Vision SP - Ch. 9 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/9292 DO - 10.5772/9292 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-24 ER -