Abstract
A microchannel SLM is employed to demonstrate the optical calculation of potential field maps for mobile robot navigation. In one MSLM mode, written patterns expand spatially, and this characteristic is used to create an extended two dimensional function representing the influence of the goal in a robot's workspace. The optical calculation time scales favorably in comparison to digital electronic computation.
© 1993 Optical Society of America
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