Distributed color tracker for remote robot applications and simulation environment

Abstract

This paper proposed a distribuited color tracker for a robot and a simulated car navigation which can run in a network node. To perform a reliable color tracking both in a real robot and a simulated environment, a color tracker needs to deal with a reliable color filtering and a region segmentation technique. The proposed tracker also has been implemented as a network service so that it can be deployed either in any computer nodes in network environments or in the robot itself. The tracker service has been also developed to perform a coordination service for a robot that can follow a user wearing a colored shirt and for a simulated car to navigate a given track autonomously. We successfully demonstrated a human following of a robot and an autonomous car navigation using the tracker. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.