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http://dx.doi.org/10.5370/KIEE.2011.60.6.1245

Target Tracking of the Wheeled Mobile Robot using the Combined Visual Servo Control Method  

Lee, Ho-Won (아주대 전자공학과)
Kwon, Ji-Wook (아주대 전자공학과)
Hong, Suk-Kyo (아주대 전자공학과)
Chwa, Dong-Kyoung (아주대 전자공학과)
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The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers / v.60, no.6, 2011 , pp. 1245-1254 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a target tracking algorithm for wheeled mobile robots using in various fields. For the stable tracking, we apply a vision system to a mobile robot which can extract targets through image processing algorithms. Furthermore, this paper presents an algorithm to position the mobile robot at the desired location from the target by estimating its relative position and attitude. We show the problem in the tracking method using the Position-Based Visual Servo(PBVS) control, and propose a tracking method, which can achieve the stable tracking performance by combining the PBVS control with Image-Based Visual Servo(IBVS) control. When the target is located around the outskirt of the camera image, the target can disappear from the field of view. Thus the proposed algorithm combines the control inputs with of the hyperbolic form the switching function to solve this problem. Through both simulations and experiments for the mobile robot we have confirmed that the proposed visual servo control method is able to enhance the stability compared to of the method using only either PBVS or IBVS control method.
Keywords
Wheeled mobile robot; Target tracking; Position-based visual servo control; Image-based visual servo control; Combined visual servo control;
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