Object following control of six-legged robot using Kinect camera

Abstract

This paper proposes a vision-based object following system for the six-legged robot using Kinect camera. To do this task, the followings are done. First, for image processing, a Kinect camera is installed on the six-legged robot. The interesting moving object is detected by a color-based object detection method. The local coordinates of the detected object are obtained to provide the position of the object. Second, the backstepping method using Lyapunov function is adopted to design a controller for the six-legged robot to achieve object following. Finally, the simulation and experimental results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed control method.