A hybrid algorithm for tracking and following people using a robotic dog

HRI 2008 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction: Living with Robots

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 185-192

  Liem, Martijn ^a   Visser, Arnoud ^a   Groen, Frans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Awareness and monitoring of humans; Robot companion

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION; COLOR HISTOGRAM; DOMESTIC ENVIRONMENTS; ENVIRONMENT CHANGE; HYBRID ALGORITHMS; LEGGED ROBOTS; ROBOT COMPANION; ROBUST PERFORMANCE; RUNTIMES; SALIENT FEATURES; SMALL ROBOTS; SYSTEM GAIN; TRACKING ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 77649269135     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1349822.1349847     Document Type: Conference Paper

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