RoboCam

Author

Tomitaka, T. ; Kondo, Y. ; Koyanagi, M. ; Suito, T. ; Hosonuma, N. ; Kohashi, T.

Author_Institution

Dev. & Eng. Div., Sony Corp., Shinagawa, Japan

Volume

5

fYear

1995

fDate

20-24 Mar 1995

Firstpage

83

Abstract

Proposes a new concept model, called “RoboCam”, of a video camera which can automatically shoot without a camera man. RoboCam has not only the ability of automatic object tracking but also various talents for entertainment such as “Hit-and-Drop” and “Slalom”. RoboCam consists of five blocks: (1) a video camera block; (2) an object recognition block; (3) a pan-tilt and two-wheel-drive mechanism with six sensors for fall avoidance; (4) an infrared video signal transmitter; and (5) a system control block using fuzzy logic. This paper focuses on the system control block to harmonize both panning and wheel motors, smoothly following the movement of the object

Keywords

fuzzy control; fuzzy logic; mobile robots; object recognition; video cameras; RoboCam; automatic object tracking; fall avoidance; fuzzy logic; infrared transmitter; object recognit; pan-tilt; two-wheel-drive mechanism; video camera; Cameras; Control systems; Face detection; Fuzzy logic; Infrared sensors; Object recognition; Sensor systems; Transmitters; Videoconference; Wheels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fuzzy Systems, 1995. International Joint Conference of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and The Second International Fuzzy Engineering Symposium., Proceedings of 1995 IEEE Int

Conference_Location

Yokohama

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2461-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FUZZY.1995.410048

Filename

410048