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Place learning with a human tracking mobile robot

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dc.contributor Graduate Program in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
dc.contributor.advisor Bozma, H. Işıl.
dc.contributor.author İşcan, Serhat.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-16T10:20:02Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-16T10:20:02Z
dc.date.issued 2019.
dc.identifier.other EE 2019 I73
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/12947
dc.description.abstract This thesis is concerned with human-guided spatial cognition. This is an im portant problem in human-robot interaction as it can yield human-like knowledge of places. It is a difficult problem as it requires the robot to have three capabilities that can function in an integrated manner - namely human tracking, human following, and spatial reasoning while doing so. The goal of tracking is human detection and esti mating the relative position of the human as long as s/he remains within the robot’s field of view. We consider a robot endowed with an RGB-D sensor and propose an approach that consists of five stages: human detection, target region selection, detec tion improvement, target distance calculation, and relative position derivation. Human detection is based on one of two alternative existing methods depending on whether the processing power or accuracy is of priority. In case the target cannot be found or if more than one target is found, the continuity of tracking is ensured through position estimation. The goal of human following is to ensure that the robot keeps the target human within its field of view - even if the human is bodily moving. This is achieved using a reactive navigation approach - based on previous work. As such, the robot is able to follow the target while avoiding collisions along the way. The final stage is spatial reasoning. Here, we utilize a topological spatial cognition model. In this model, a place refers to an area with spatial extent as defined by its appearances. The model works in conjunction with a place memory and places are detected, recognized or learned if necessary. Our experimental results indicate that the three capabilities can operate in an integrated manner.
dc.format.extent 30 cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2019.
dc.subject.lcsh Human-robot interaction.
dc.subject.lcsh Robotics.
dc.title Place learning with a human tracking mobile robot
dc.format.pages xiii, 53 leaves ;


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