Autonomous mobile robot and its control method for guidance

    公开(公告)号:JP3979141B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-09-19

    申请号:JP2002085623

    申请日:2002-03-26

    摘要: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an autonomous moving robot used for guidance and its control method capable of carrying out guidance simply and accurately without discomfort by extracting reliably the characteristic of a guided-person. SOLUTION: A guided-person detecting computer B is equipped with: a image pickup means 1 for imaging the surrounding of itself with a camera, etc., a characteristic extracting computing device 3 for identifying a guided-person 2 from images picked up with the image pickup means 1 by extracting the appearance characteristics of persons existing around itself, a characteristic region tracking computing part 5 for tracking the variation of a characteristic region 4a which is extracted from images picked up any time, for identifying the guided-person 2 using the characteristic extracting computing device 3, due to the moving of the guided-person 2, by comparing with a characteristic region 4b on an image picked up most recently, and a guided-person position deriving calculate device 6 for deriving the position of the guided-person 2 with the characteristic region tracking computing part 5. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO