Human tracking and following using sensor fusion approach for mobile assistive companion robot

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2235-2240

  Luo, Ren C ^a   Chang, Nai Wen ^a   Lin, Shih Chi ^a   Wu, Shih Chiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Intelligent robot; Robot tracking; Sensor fusion; Virtual spring model

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE; COMPANION ROBOT; COMPLEMENTARY DATA; CONTROL RULES; COVARIANCE INTERSECTION; HUMAN TRACKING; INTELLIGENT SERVICES; LASER RANGE FINDERS; POSITION INFORMATION; ROBOT TRACKING; ROBUST METHODS; ROBUST PERFORMANCE; SENSOR FUSION; SINGLE CAMERAS; SINGLE VISION; SMALL SIZE; VIRTUAL SPRING; VIRTUAL SPRING MODEL; VISION SENSORS;

INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; RANGE FINDERS; RANGE FINDING; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSORS; STEREO VISION; TARGETS;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 77951553356     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2009.5415185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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