A calibration program for autonomous video based robot navigation systems

Abstract

A program for camera calibration was implemented for a robot vision project. The aim of this project is the development of software to generate a map with an autonomous mobile robot. The map generation must be performed only video based and shall be the base for tasks which must be fulfilled by an office messenger or a watchman. The field for service robots requires especially cheap, fast, and simply portable software. Calibration program SICAST (simple calibration strategy) in this work meets these requirements.