Aerial visual aid system for ground mobile robot behavior controller in joint operation

Abstract

Disasters are increased in number. No matter what the cause of the disaster is human or natural, the consequence is always hard and takes long time to deal with if only human labor is used. Robotic systems are used more and more in search and rescue mission to shorten the time as well as reduce the danger for human. Mobile robot system faced difficulties of uncertainties in sensor system, unstructured environments, or lack adaptive ability to situation and dynamic environments. This paper proposed a system utilized mobile robot with aid from aerial imaging system to assist its intelligent control system. System is autonomous control to process the environment for search and rescue mission. The joint operation achieved the detection and avoidance of obstacles with different features to guide ground robot to target.