Bio-Inspired Event-Based Visual Servoing for Ground Robots
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| author | Mordad, Maral Behzad, Kian Biswas, Debojyoti Cowan, Noah J. Siami, Milad |
| author_facet | Mordad, Maral Behzad, Kian Biswas, Debojyoti Cowan, Noah J. Siami, Milad |
| contents | Biological sensory systems are inherently adaptive, filtering out constant stimuli and prioritizing relative changes, likely enhancing computational and metabolic efficiency. Inspired by active sensing behaviors across a wide range of animals, this paper introduces a principled 1D event-based visual servoing framework for ground robots operating in structured environments. Utilizing a Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS), we demonstrate that by applying a fixed spatial kernel to the asynchronous event stream generated from structured logarithmic intensity-change patterns, the resulting net event flux analytically isolates specific combinations of kinematic states. We establish a generalized theoretical bound for this event rate estimator and show that linear and quadratic spatial profiles isolate the robot's velocity and position-velocity product, respectively. Leveraging these properties, we employ a multi-pattern stimulus to directly synthesize a nonlinear state feedback term entirely without traditional state estimation. To overcome the inescapable loss of linear observability at equilibrium inherent in event sensing, we propose a bio-inspired active sensing limit-cycle controller. Experimental validation on a 1/10-scale autonomous ground vehicle confirms the efficacy, extreme low-latency, and computational efficiency of the proposed direct-sensing approach. |
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| spellingShingle | Bio-Inspired Event-Based Visual Servoing for Ground Robots Mordad, Maral Behzad, Kian Biswas, Debojyoti Cowan, Noah J. Siami, Milad Robotics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Biological sensory systems are inherently adaptive, filtering out constant stimuli and prioritizing relative changes, likely enhancing computational and metabolic efficiency. Inspired by active sensing behaviors across a wide range of animals, this paper introduces a principled 1D event-based visual servoing framework for ground robots operating in structured environments. Utilizing a Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS), we demonstrate that by applying a fixed spatial kernel to the asynchronous event stream generated from structured logarithmic intensity-change patterns, the resulting net event flux analytically isolates specific combinations of kinematic states. We establish a generalized theoretical bound for this event rate estimator and show that linear and quadratic spatial profiles isolate the robot's velocity and position-velocity product, respectively. Leveraging these properties, we employ a multi-pattern stimulus to directly synthesize a nonlinear state feedback term entirely without traditional state estimation. To overcome the inescapable loss of linear observability at equilibrium inherent in event sensing, we propose a bio-inspired active sensing limit-cycle controller. Experimental validation on a 1/10-scale autonomous ground vehicle confirms the efficacy, extreme low-latency, and computational efficiency of the proposed direct-sensing approach. |
| title | Bio-Inspired Event-Based Visual Servoing for Ground Robots |
| topic | Robotics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23672 |