Italian Space Agency
Optical Microsystems for Robotic Applications in Space


Funding Agency: ASI (Italian Space Agency)

Funding period: 1996-1999

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Contact Person

Giacomo.M. BISIO
Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering
University of Genoa
Via Opera Pia, 11a
I-16145 Genova, ITALY
tel:  (+39) 010 353 2756
fax:  (+39) 010 353 2777
e-mail: bisio@dibe.unige.it

Participants

Coordinator:
	     PSPC-lab, DIBE-University of Genoa			I
Partners:   
             LIRA-lab, DIST-University of Genoa			I
	     EOLAB, DIEE-University of Cagliari			I

Abstract

The project aims to develop a microsystem (i.e. a miniaturized system comprising sensing, processing and/or actuating functions) that gives real-time perceptual capabilities to the control of the vision system of a binocular head. The outputs of two optical arrays (retinas) are processed on-chip through Gabor-like operators for determining a stereo disparity signal to be used in a feedback loop for the control of the vergence of a couple of higher resolution cameras.

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