Vision-Based Navigation and Parallel Computing

Abstract

This report describes research performed during the period May 1988- May 1989 under DARPA support. The report contains discussion of four main topics: 1) On-going research on visual navigation, focusing on a system named RAMBO, for the study of robots acting on moving bodies; 2) Development and implementation of parallel algorithms for image processing and computer vision on the Connection Machine and the Butterfly; 3)Development of parallel heuristic search algorithms on the Butterfly that have linear speedup properties over a wide range of problem sizes and machine sizes; and 4) Development of Connection Machine algorithms for matrix operations that are key computational steps in many image processing and computer vision algorithms. This research has resulted in twelve technical reports, and several publications in conferences and workshops. Keywords: Autonomous navigation; Computer vision; Parallel processing; Search.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA214481

Entities

People

  • Daniel Dementhon
  • David Harwood
  • Larry S. Davis
  • Thor Bestul

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Vision
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Processing
  • Image Processing
  • Parallel Computing
  • Parallel Processors
  • Processing Equipment
  • Reasoning
  • Three Dimensional
  • Trees (Data Structures)
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Robotics and Automation.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Learning Algorithms
  • Autonomy