Title :
A 4-legged mobile robot control to observe a human behavior
Author :
Kiriki, T. ; Kimuro, Y. ; Hasegawa, T.
Author_Institution :
Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan
Abstract :
Describes a 4-legged walking robot that is navigated by human gesture. The navigation process is composed of two phases. The first is a human following phase. To follow a human, the robot tracks a human head by a visual tracking system. The latter phase is the recognition of human gestures. To achieve reliable and real-time recognition of the human gesture, we focus on such gestures expressed by cyclically repeated motion of the hands. We show how these gestures are recognized successfully to control the 4 legged robot
Keywords :
gesture recognition; image motion analysis; legged locomotion; motion control; path planning; robot vision; 4-legged mobile robot; cyclically repeated hand motion; human following phase; human gesture; human head tracking; visual tracking system; Cameras; Humans; Legged locomotion; Magnetic heads; Mobile robots; Motion control; Navigation; Pattern recognition; Robot control; Robot vision systems;
Conference_Titel :
Robot and Human Interaction, 1999. RO-MAN '99. 8th IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Pisa
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5841-4
DOI :
10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900339
