Abstract—We have designed a small robot called Cube for simple robotics tasks and students works. The Cube carries only small and lightweight computational platform Raspberry Pi equipped with a camera. This paper serves as an introduction to using image processing methods on a Raspberry Pi platform via Simulink in Matlab. We have designed a cheap framework for fast image processing in real-time including feature extraction and image transformation methods. In the paper a several selected methods frequently used not only in robotics are implemented and tested on the Raspberry Pi 2 equipped with a native camera board. Algorithms for edge, corner and line detection have been implemented by using Simulink with the Computer Vision System Toolbox and other in-build tools.
 

Index Terms—image processing, Raspberry Pi platform, Matlab Simulink, feature extraction

Cite: K. Horak and L. Zalud, "Image Processing on Raspberry Pi for Mobile Robotics," International Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 494-498, December 2016. doi: 10.18178/ijsps.4.6.494-498