The Detection and Following of Human Legs Through Inductive Approaches for a Mobile Robot With a Single Laser Range Finder

• Published in: IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982) Vol. 59; no. 8; pp. 3156 - 3166
• Main Authors: Chung, Woojin, Kim, Hoyeon, Yoo, Yoonkyu, Moon, Chang-Bae, Park, Jooyoung
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.08.2012; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Human; Human following; human-robot interaction; Humans; Laser range finders; leg detection; Legged locomotion; Legs; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical models; mobile robot navigation; Navigation; Robots; Shape; Target tracking; Tracking

The human-friendly navigation of mobile robots is a significant social and technological issue. There are many potential applications of human-following technology. Good examples are human-following shopping carts, porter robots at airports, and museum guide robots. In this paper, we propose detecti...