Research on the Vision Control System for Modular Robot

Modular robot is an approach to build the robot for various complex tasks with the promise of great versatility, robustness and lower cost. It can be used extensively to meet the demands of different tasks or different working environments by changing its shapes. Therefore, they can travel over or through obstacles, and go though small pipe. Even they can walk somewhat like a person on crutches. It is a key technology that how modular robot with vision to capture exact image information, as well as to extract the feature parameters of components real-timely, to recognize the component types, and to judge the position and posture of component. The quantity of the motion pattern will decide the adjustable ability of modular robot. So, dynamic vision control system is very important for modular robot, which can improve its moving ability and intelligent degree. With the help of the dynamic vision control system, the robot can accomplish different tasks in different working environments by itself, such as deciding routes and avoiding obstacles. In this paper, in order to improve the vision of modular robot, a kind of dynamic vision control system is analyzed and researched roundly, and two kinds of motion patterns for the modular robot are put forward.