The Confluence of Vision and Control

Research issues in vision and control.- Visual homing: Surfing on the epipoles.- Role of active vision in optimizing visual feedback for robot control.- An alternative approach for image-plane control of robots.- Potential problems of stability and convergence in image-based and position-based visual servoing.- What can be done with an uncalibrated stereo system?.- Visual tracking of points as estimation on the unit sphere.- Extending visual servoing techniques to nonholonomic mobile robots.- A lagrangian formulation of nonholonomic path following.- Vision guided navigation for a nonholonomic mobile robot.- Design, delay and performance in gaze control: Engineering and biological approaches.- The separation of photometry and geometry via active vision.- Vision-based system identification and state estimation.- Visual tracking, active vision, and gradient flows.- Visual control of grasping.- Dynamic vision merging control engineering and AI methods.- Real-time pose estimation and control for convoying applications.- Visual routines for vehicle control.- Microassembly of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) using visual servoing.- The block island workshop: Summary report.