Selecting and Commanding Individual Robots in a Multi-Robot System

Author

Couture-Beil, Alex ; Vaughan, Richard T. ; Mori, Greg

Author_Institution

Autonomy Lab./Vision & Media Lab., Simon Fraser Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada

fYear

2010

fDate

May 31 2010-June 2 2010

Firstpage

159

Lastpage

166

Abstract

We present a novel real-time computer vision-based system for facilitating interactions between a single human and a multi-robot system: a user first selects an individual robot from a group of robots, by simply looking at it, and then commands the selected robot with a motion-based gesture. Robots estimate which robot the user is looking at by performing a distributed leader election based on the "score" of the detected frontal face.

Keywords

face recognition; gesture recognition; human-robot interaction; motion control; multi-robot systems; robot vision; computer vision; distributed leader election; frontal face detection; individual robot command; individual robot selection; motion-based gesture; multi-robot system; Anthropomorphism; Cognitive robotics; Communication channels; Computer vision; Face detection; Human robot interaction; Humanoid robots; Multirobot systems; Nominations and elections; Robot vision systems; HRI; application; gesture recognition; human-robot interaction; human-robot interface; multi-robot system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), 2010 Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6963-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CRV.2010.28

Filename

5479474