One of the more important tasks to be executed on a mobile robot, concerns the detection of obstacles during the robot motions. Many methods have been proposed for this function: nevertheless their performances are limited when applied in a structured environment made highly dynamic and cluttered due to humans. This document presents a visual and flexible system for obstacle detection in such an environment. The system is made of several micro-cameras fixed all around the robot body, and of a programmable electronic board. The camera number must be large enough (4 in the current version, 8 in the future one), so that real-time performances mandatory for such a function, cannot be reached from a standard multipurpose processor. It makes comp...