Title :
Human following behavior of an autonomous mobile robot using light-emitting device
Author :
Nagumo, Yosuke ; Ohya, Akihisa
Author_Institution :
Intelligent Robot Lab., Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract :
The purpose of this study is to develop an autonomous mobile robot which can follow a human being. The robot with a camera looks at a human carrying a light-emitting device. The device consists of two LEDs, and between these two LEDs the direction from the position of the LED is captured on the image; the robot can then follow the trajectory of the human. The main features of the approach are the camera´s pan and on-off flashing LEDs. In this paper, the method used and result of a primary experiments are presented
Keywords :
mobile robots; navigation; position control; robot vision; target tracking; autonomous mobile robots; flashing LEDs; human following behavior; image processing; path following; robot vision; target tracking; Cameras; Equations; Human robot interaction; Intelligent robots; Joining processes; Laboratories; Light emitting diodes; Mobile robots; Robot kinematics; Robot vision systems;
Conference_Titel :
Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2001. Proceedings. 10th IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Bordeaux, Paris
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7222-0
DOI :
10.1109/ROMAN.2001.981906
