Research of smart real-time robot navigation system

Abstract

In this paper described how the humanoid robot measures its distance to the orange ball on green floor. We trained the robot camera (CMUcam5) to detect and track the block color of the orange ball. The block color also used to estimate the distance of the camera toward the ball by comparing its block color size when its in the end of field of view and when its near of the camera. Then, using the pythagoras equation we calculate the distance estimation between the whole humanoid robot toward the ball. The distance will be used to estimate how many step the robot must perform to approach the ball and doing another task like kick the ball. The result shows that our method can be used as one of smart navigation system using a camera as the only one sensor to perceive the information of environtment.