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What are the consequences of representing a three-dimensional scene using only two-dimensions? The appearance of parallel lines converging and circular objects being elliptical should be surprising but we take this for granted.

Let’s look at numerical approaches to inverse kinematics for a couple of different robots and learn some of the important considerations. For RTB10.x please note that the mask value must be explicitly preceded by the ‘mask’ keyword. For example: >> q = p2.ikine(T, [-1 -1], ‘mask’, [1 1 0 0 0 0])

Many scenes, particularly of man-made environments, have very dominant lines due to the edges of objects. The Hough transform is a common technique for finding dominant lines, and we ill examine how it works and apply it to a real image.

An image contains a huge amount of pixel data, and a video stream is a massive flow of pixel data. Typically a robot has only a few inputs, the position or velocity of its joints. How do we go from all that camera data to the small amount of data the robot really needs?

Let’s recap the basics of homogeneous coordinates to represent points on a plane.

We learn to compute a trajectory that involves simultaneous smooth motion of many robot joints.

We will compare and contrast the terms image processing, computer vision and robotic vision — they have much in common but there are some subtle but important distinctions. When it comes to interpreting an image we typically try to find and describe regions, lines and interest points.

Since an image in MATLAB is just a matrix of numbers, we could write code to fill in the elements of the matrix. Let’s look at some simple examples such as squares, circles and lines and more complex images formed by pasting these shapes together.

We will introduce resolved-rate motion control which is a classical Jacobian-based scheme for moving the end-effector at a specified velocity without having to compute inverse kinematics.

Let’s recap the important points from the topics we have covered about image formation and perspective projection.