The collection of articles presented here, emerged from the Block Island Workshop on Vision and Control that brought together pioneering researchers from around the world. Discussions of new theoretical developments and the empirical validation of techniques and applications, are recorded in this book. Over recent years, robotics, computer vision and control theory researchers have addressed theoretical issues of: real-time vision, visual tracking, the active focus of attention and vision-based control of motion. At the same time, these theoretical insights have been used in applications such...

Modern robots can perform complex tasks with astonishing precision and speed - within a structured environment. The challenge is to make a seeing robot that can perceive and react reliably in the complex and unpredictable real world. To this end, vision-based control of motion has drawn increasing interest in recent years.