Accurate, high precision path tracking is an important capability for mobile robots in certain applications. In this paper, we discuss a formal method for comparing and evaluating the performance of path tracking algorithms. This method provides a way to quantify both the stability and performance of a tracker, and is of particular interest when high-accuracy off-road tracking is required. Prev...

The aim of this paper is to present the genetic algorithm used in programming a solar tracker robot. robot can be increase efficiency panels by rotating them toward Sun. When increased, they reduce space occupied them. Efficiency also increased algorithms, where panel evolve and thus track Sun more precisely. implemented main focus paper. presented with flow chart formulas. After this, system o...

Among the cognitive abilities a robot companion must be endowed with, human perception and speech understanding are both fundamental in the context of multimodal human-robot interaction. In order to provide a mobile robot with the visual perception of its user and means to handle verbal and multimodal communication, we have developed and integrated two components. In this paper we will focus on...

Intention recognition is an important task for human-agent interactions (HAI) since it can make the robot respond adequately to the human’s intention. For the robot to understand the world in terms of its own actions, the robot requires the definition of adequate knowledge representations. Affordance is the concept used to represent the relation between an agent and its environment. A robot can...

In human robot interaction developments, detection, tracking and identi ̄cation of moving objects (DATMO) constitute an important problem. More speci ̄cally, in mobile robots this problem becomes harder and more computationally expensive as the environments become dynamic and more densely populated. The problem can be divided into a number of sub-problems, which include the compensation of the ro...

This paper presents a minimalistic robot for playing interactive ball games with human players. It is designed with a realistic entertainment application in mind, being safe, flexible, reasonably cheap, and reactive. This is achieved by a clever, minimalistic robot design with a 2 DOF roll tilt unit that moves a bat with a spherical head. The robot perceives its environment through a stereo cam...

This paper develops the two-dimensional (2D) clutter adaptive, multiframe Bayes detector/tracker for targets with random signature. We model the background clutter and the target signature as samples of two independent, spatially correlated, 2D noncausal Gauss-Markov random elds (GMrfs). The target's motion is modeled by a 2D hidden Markov model (HMM). We study, through Monte Carlo simulations,...

Tracked objects rarely move alone. They are often temporarily accompanied by other objects undergoing similar motion. We propose a novel tracking algorithm called Sputnik Tracker. It is capable of identifying which image regions move coherently with the tracked object. This information is used to stabilize tracking in the presence of occlusions or fluctuations in the appearance of the tracked o...

In this paper, we propose a robust vehicle tracker for Infrared (IR) videos motivated by the recent advance in compressive sensing (CS). The new eL1-PF tracker solves a sparse model representation of moving targets via L1 regularized least squares. The sparsemodel solution addresses real-world environmental challenges such as image noises and partial occlusions. To further improve tracking perf...