Baby-Follower: A Child-Care Robot System Based on OpenMV and IOT

Abstract

Frequent accidents of children at home have caused disastrous injury and economic loss. However, the traditional child-care robots mainly focus on human-computer interaction and emphasize educational function, which cannot be used specifically to solve children's safety problems. A child-care robot system based on OpenMV and IOT is proposed in this paper. The system is a smart vehicle-type robot, which recognizes and locates the target with the AprilTag label attached to children's legs and hazard points by the machine vision module, follows the children's movement, monitors the surrounding environment through sensors, uploads data to OneNET cloud platform and provides audible alarms of the emergency to the guardians in real time. Furthermore, it also provides video real-time transmission function, manual control function and data viewing function through browser and App to protect children from danger and assist guardians to accompany children's growth.