Omnidirectional vision system developed for a home service robot

Author

Do, Yongtae ; Kim, Gilsu ; Kim, Jongman

Author_Institution

Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon

fYear

2007

fDate

4-6 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

217

Lastpage

222

Abstract

An omnidirectional vision system developed for a home service robot is described. The system is built in low cost using off-the-shelf components. The vision system is mounted on a mobile home robot, which is controlled by a PC through wireless communication. Two applications of the vision system are developed; intruder and fire detection. An adaptive background subtraction technique is used to extract intruders in image sequence. A novel vision processing algorithm for fire alarm is also proposed. This algorithm processes images in three steps; pixel-level, block-level, and global level.

Keywords

flameproofing; home computing; robot vision; service robots; adaptive background subtraction technique; fire alarm vision processing; fire detection; home service robot; intruder detection; mobile home robot; off-the-shelf component; omnidirectional vision system; wireless communication; Communication system control; Control systems; Costs; Fires; Machine vision; Mobile robots; Robot control; Robot vision systems; Service robots; Wireless communication; Fire detection; Home service robot; Intruder detection; Omnidirectional camera;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, 2007. M2VIP 2007. 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xiamen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1358-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1358-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430746

Filename

4430746