EyeSeeCam Robot Follows Your Eyes
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 4 of May , 2009 at 3:18 am
In an attempt to make manual control of robot vision a thing of the past, researchers from the University of Munich Hospital have developed the EyeSeeCam system, which is able to track eye movements and relay commands to a robot (or anywhere else). Using infrared LEDs, transparent mirrors, and video cameras all mounted on a pair of glasses, EyeSeeCam can monitor what your eyes are doing 600 times per second with a pointing accuracy of half a degree. That data are then used to dynamically control a robotic vision system, which causes the robot to look exactly where you do. The EyeSeeCam system also includes a 6 DoF inertial measurement unit that can be used for head tracking, meaning that you can set up a robot head and eyes to exactly mimic your own head and eyes without any active input.
All that’s required to run EyeSeeCam is a laptop with a Firewire port. The hardware itself is wireless, only weighs 170 grams, runs on batteries, and is “low cost” (whatever that means). Primarily designed to study cognitive behavior, the system should end up being commercially available at some point.
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