Pose-free visual servoing from 3D measurements

In this paper, a novel approach to visual servo control robotic systems is proposed. It is focused on developing a solution using 3D point features without recovering the rigid object’s pose. Pose-free motion is achieved using motion parameterization techniques based on dual numbers and dual vectors. Considering an imposed velocity field over the motion of the 3D point features ensemble, this work proposes a close-form solution to a visual servoing problem. The solution provides stable motion control while preserving the image features in the field of view. However, when some point features leave the field of view, their contribution to the control law is dropped without losing stability. The proposed solution is easy to tune and implement. Various scenarios are used in simulations and real experiments to show how the proposed solution overcomes classic servoing problems.