Robot human-following limited speed control

Abstract

Robot human-following is an important part of interaction between robot and people. Generally, speed of mobile robots is limited and far slower than human beings naturally walking speed. In order to catch the human rapidly, in this paper, we introduce a control method which uses adaptive acceleration of robots speed. The speed of robots mainly depends on the human speed and distance. Also the robots speed acceleration is adaptive to the distance between human and robots. The proposed control is successfully verified through experiments.