Firefighting robot paints 3-D thermal imaging picture for rescuers
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 21:30
in Astronomy & Space
Engineers have developed new image processing techniques for rapid exploration and characterization of structural fires by small Segway-like robotic vehicles. A sophisticated on-board software system takes the thermal data recorded by the robot's small infrared camera and maps it onto a 3-D scene constructed from the images taken by a pair of stereo RGB cameras.