Author:Burke, Michael G; Brink, WDate:Nov 2010This paper presents a monocular vision-based technique for extracting orientation information from a human torso for use in a robotic human-follower. Typical approaches to human-following use an estimate of only human position for navigation, ...Read more
Author:Burke, Michael G; Brink, WDate:Aug 2011This paper presents a gain-scheduling controller for a human-following robot. Typical controllers use either a point-to-point approach where the relative orientation between human and platform is uncontrolled, or a direction-based approach ...Read more
Author:Burke, Michael GDate:Mar 2011This thesis presents work completed on the design of control and vision components for use in a monocular vision-based human-following robot. The use of vision in a controller feedback loop is referred to as vision-based or visual servo ...Read more