Development of object detection software for a mobile robot using an AForce.Net framework

This paper presents a guideline for application development to provide image object detection capability using “Aforge.NET Framework” in conjunction with C# language. In detecting the target object, image processing techniques such as Blob Counter and HSL Color space were used to distinguish the object from the background and determine the position of the target object on the image. This application can be applied to enhance various capabilities on the mobile robot such as object detection, object following and rotation direction control of robot´s camera.