How Have AI/LLM Coding Tools Impacted Software Development? The emergence of AI systems (as we will also refer to as Large Language Model/LLM tools) in the 2020s is one of the biggest, unanticipated, game changers in software development (and virtually every field). For decades AI research plodded along, making incremental progress with occasional practical breakthroughs,
The article explains how to implement a simple vision-based navigation system using OpenCV and Python. It demonstrates a toy example where position metadata is encoded into floor colors, with red and green channels representing X and Y coordinates. Through code examples, the article walks through creating this artificial environment, capturing data with a camera, and processing it to estimate position, orientation, and more advanced navigation techniques.
Vision Navigation is a blanket term that describes using optical-like raster input devices to discover your position and orientation (“pose”) and then use that position to plan, execute and monitor changes in position/pose within the environment. This whitepaper introduces the techniques, strengths and weaknesses, applications and processes of computer vision navigation.
