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NASA Vision Workbench

Published on 22 Apr 2007 at 10:37 pm. No Comments.
Filed under Computation, Intelligent Systems, Note to Self, Research, Robotics, Software.

The NASA Vision Workbench (VW) is a general purpose image processing and computer vision library developed by Matt Hancher and colleagues from the Autonomous Systems and Robotics (ASR) Area in the Intelligent Systems Division at the NASA Ames Research Center.  The VW website has all the necessary installation information as well as the documentation titled [...]

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Controlling Lego NXT Robots with Matlab

Published on 30 Mar 2007 at 1:16 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under Computation, Lego, NXT, Research, Robotics, Software, Solutions.

For research in Knuthlab, I am interested in controlling the Lego NXT Bricks with Mathworks MATLAB.  MATLAB is a high-level mathematical language structured much like C.  The main benefit is that many sophisticated mathematical algorithms are available for immediate use in MATLAB, and that these algorithms are fast and easily developed.  Furthermore, much signal processing research is performed [...]

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