A fusion of computer vision technique and a visual programming language for edutainment robots

Author

Chulhee Yun ; Jaegon Ahn ; Yeon-Ho Kim

Author_Institution

Dongbu Robot, South Korea

fYear

2013

fDate

24-26 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Edutainment robots combined with visual programming languages (VPLs) have lent a helping hand in learning programming easily and amusingly. If computer vision techniques can be added to edutainment robot systems, they will strongly support educational benefits. In this paper, we fused three basic computer vision algorithms - detection of brightness, motion and color - with a VPL for a commercial edutainment robot. We also implemented this technique into three exemplary applications - line tracer, motion game and color mark tracking - and confirmed their proper execution on robots.

Keywords

brightness; computer aided instruction; computer games; computer science education; computer vision; educational robots; entertainment; human-robot interaction; humanoid robots; image colour analysis; image fusion; image motion analysis; mobile robots; visual languages; visual programming; VPL; brightness detection; color detection; color mark tracking; computer vision technique; edutainment robot systems; line tracer; motion detection; motion game; programming learning; visual programming language; Image color analysis; Navigation; Programming profession; Robot control; Switches; OpenCV; computer vision; robot; visual programming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics (ISR), 2013 44th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISR.2013.6695728

Filename

6695728