Development of the Various Functions for Autonomous Golf Ball Collection Robot

Abstract

This paper presents a new global vision based system for autonomous golf ball collection robot. In this system, we use a global camera, which delivers images to the server in real time. We also design a specific robot mark that enables measurement of robot locations and orientation directly in the acquired images by using hue filter. After effective regions are determined by saturation filter, a more optimal path will be calculated for the robot to perform. The developed system has higher time efficiency and accuracy, which was verified by carefully performed experiments.