Control method and device for robot following

• Main Authors: ZHOU ZHAOJIE, GE MINGJIN, CHEN QING
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 11.05.2021
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

The invention provides a robot following method, which comprises the following steps of: enabling a robot to execute the following operations in a process of moving along with a target: collecting a first image; based on the first image, extracting a first face feature and a first figure feature of the current following target, wherein the first figure feature comprises the proportion between the height and the size of the specific part of the body; comparing whether the first face feature is consistent with a second face feature and whether the first figure feature is consistent with a second figure feature, the second face feature being the face feature of the original following target, and the second figure feature being the figure feature of the original following target; and in response to inconsistency between the first face feature and the second face feature and/or inconsistency between the first figure feature and the second figure feature, adjusting the following target to be an original following t