RGB-D Sensor-based Visual Target Detection and Tracking for an Intelligent Wheelchair Robot in Indoors Environments
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Hanzhen Xiao; Zhijun Li; Chenguang Yang; Wang Yuan; Liyang Wang
- Source
- International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems, 13(3), pp.521-529 Jun, 2015
- Subject
- 제어계측공학
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2005-4092
1598-6446
The ability to follow or move alongside a person is a necessary skill for an autonomous mobile agent that works with human users. To accomplish such tasks, we develop a new scheme of visual-target de-tection and tracking for a wheelchair robot equipped with Microsoft Kinect that captures RGB images along with per-pixel depth information (RGB-D camera). The speeded-up semi-supervised on-line boosting algorithm is employed to provide the robust description of feature for environments and the target person from RGB images. Based on the environmental Haar-like features, we utilize an ex-tended Kalman filter (EKF) based localization to estimate robot pose. Then obstacle avoidance navigation approach based on η3 spline trajectory planning and optimization are proposed for the wheelchair robot. Finally, the experimental results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility in real world environments.