<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper presents a navigation method for a mobile robot using a visual system. Circular marks with specific colors are used for marking the significant points of the mobile robot’s trajectory that it needs to pass. The colors of the used marks are signalizing the way of their bypassing with the mobile robot (from the left or right side). The mobile robot uses only one camera for the marks recognition task and it is able to determine its own relative position from the detected marks. The image processing and the mobile robot’s trajectory planning algorithm working in real-time are described in this paper.</p></abstract>

This paper presents a navigation method for a mobile robot using a visual system. Circular marks with specific colors are used for marking the significant points of the mobile robot’s trajectory that it needs to pass. The colors of the used marks are signalizing the way of their bypassing with the mobile robot (from the left or right side). The mobile robot uses only one camera for the marks recognition task and it is able to determine its own relative position from the detected marks. The image processing and the mobile robot’s trajectory planning algorithm working in real-time are described in this paper.

Mobile Robot Navigation Based on Circle Recognition

Institute of Control and Industrial Informatics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology STU, Ilkovičova 3, 812 19 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Journal of Electrical Engineering

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This paper presents a navigation method for a mobile robot using a visual system. Circular marks with specific colors are used for marking the significant...

Mobile Robot Navigation Based on Circle Recognition

Published Online: Apr 19, 2013

Page range: 84 - 91

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jee-2013-0012

Keywords
circular mark detection, mobile robot trajectory planning, image processing, Hough transform

This content is open access.

Mobile Robot Navigation Based on Circle Recognition

Published Online: Apr 19, 2013

Page range: 84 - 91

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jee-2013-0012

Keywordscircular mark detection, mobile robot trajectory planning, image processing, Hough transform

This content is open access.

Keywords
circular mark detection, mobile robot trajectory planning, image processing, Hough transform