Researchers and robotic development groups have recently started paying special attention to autonomous mobile robot navigation in indoor environments using vision sensors. The required data is provided for robot navigation and object detection using a camera as a sensor. The aim of the project is to construct a mobile robot that has integrated vision system capability used by a webcam to locate, track and follow a moving object. To achieve this task, multiple image processing algorithms are implemented and processed in real-time. A mini-laptop was used for collecting the necessary data to be sent to a PIC microcontroller that turns the processes of data obtained to provide the robot's proper orientation. A vision system can be utilized in object recognition for robot control applications. The results demonstrate that the proposed mobile robot can be successfully operated through a webcam that detects the object and distinguishes a tennis ball based on its color and shape.

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使用视觉系统的实时自主机器人进行对象跟踪

研究人员和机器人开发小组最近开始特别关注使用视觉传感器的室内环境中的自主移动机器人导航。使用相机作为传感器为机器人导航和物体检测提供了所需的数据。该项目的目的是构建一种具有集成视觉系统功能的移动机器人，网络摄像头可使用该机器人来定位，跟踪和跟踪移动物体。为了实现此任务，实时实现并处理了多种图像处理算法。微型笔记本电脑用于收集将要发送到PIC微控制器的必要数据，该PIC微控制器将转换获得的数据的过程以提供机器人正确的方向。视觉系统可用于机器人控制应用的对象识别中。