Sensing and planning are at the core of robot motion. Traditionally,
mobile robots have been used for performing various tasks
with a general-purpose processor on-board. This book grew out of
our research enquiry into alternate architectures for sensor-based
robot motion. It describes our research starting early 2002 with the
objectives of obtaining a time, space and energy-efficient solution
for processing sensor data for various robotic tasks.
New algorithms and architectures have been developed for
exploration and other aspects of robot motion. The research has
also resulted in design and fabrication of an FPGA-based mobile
robot equipped with ultrasonic sensors. Numerous experiments
with the FPGA-based mobile robot have also been performed and
they confirm the efficacy of the alternate architecture.
In engineering, compensation is planning for side effects or other unintended issues in a design. The design of an invention can itself also be to compensate for some other existing issue or exception.
One example is in a voltage-controlled crystal oscillator (VCXO), which is normally affected not only by voltage, but to a lesser extent by temperature. A temperature-compensated version (a TCVCXO) is designed so that heat buildup within the enclosure of a transmitter or other such device will not alter the piezoelectric effect, thereby causing frequency drift.
Another example is motion compensation on digital cameras and video cameras, which keep a picture steady and not blurry.
motion detection made in processing. it detects motion in stream taken from webcam using OpenCV specialised and dedicated library. It is based on Java and is free - made by Intel
