Development of vision service in Robotics Studio for road signs recognition and control of LEGO MINDSTORMS ROBOT

Author

Trung, Pham ; Afzulpurkar, Nitin ; Bodhale, Dhananjay

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. & Technol., Asian Inst. of Technol., Bangkok

fYear

2009

fDate

22-25 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

1176

Lastpage

1181

Abstract

Microsoft recently announced the release of Microsoft robotics studio (MSRS) for developing applications for robots. By itself, it is interesting to see this new toolkit, but it should appeal beyond those interested in programming robots. In this research, MSRS is used to control the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot motion using Webcam for road sign recognition. MSRS software, Sensors, and Motors are used as services for the robot. We also generated a modular service for Webcam that allows LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot to become more flexible and intelligent. The robot can follow a path by recognizing road signs such as left, right, and stop.

Keywords

image recognition; image sensors; intelligent robots; mobile robots; motion control; road traffic; robot programming; robot vision; video cameras; LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot motion control; MSRS software; Microsoft robotics studio; Webcam; image processing; image sensor; intelligent robot; road sign recognition; robot programming; vision service; Application software; Hardware; Image processing; Intelligent robots; Intelligent sensors; Medical robotics; Roads; Robot sensing systems; Robot vision systems; Service robots; LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot; Microsoft robotics studio; Vision service; image processing; signs recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Biomimetics, 2008. ROBIO 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangkok

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2678-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2679-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBIO.2009.4913167

Filename

4913167