An intelligent mobile robot golfing system using binocular stereo vision

This paper describes a robot vision golfing system. The ARNIE P/sup tau / (Automated Robotic Navigational unit with Intelligent Eye and Putter) project was initiated to investigate the problems and develop software solutions for robotic tasks that require good hand-eye coordination and an intelligent feedback mechanism. This system has only one frame buffer and no specialized hardware, so quasi-real-time 3D tracking is accomplished in software using the unix spline facility. Golf is a difficult perceptory task which requires the integration of many complicated computational tasks. It is therefore a good platform to experiment with artificial intelligence techniques and robotics.<>