Following robot

Abstract

The invention discloses a following robot. The robot comprises a robot body, an obstacle avoidance module, a target detection module and a walking assembly; the robot body comprises a chassis, a supporting structure and a main controller; the obstacle avoidance module comprises a distance measuring sensor, wherein the distance measuring sensor is arranged on the chassis, and the distance measuringsensor is electrically connected with the main controller; the target detection module comprises a camera shooting device, the camera shooting device is arranged at the top of the supporting structure, and the camera shooting device is electrically connected with the main controller; and the walking assembly comprises at least three omnidirectional wheels and at least three first motors, each omnidirectional wheel is driven by the single first motor, and all the first motors are electrically connected with the main controller. According to the robot, the camera shooting device is arranged atthe top of the supporting structure, so that the camera shooting device is not prone to be blocked, and a followed target is not prone to be lost; and meanwhile, the walking assembly comprising the omnidirectional wheels is arranged so that the camera shooting device can be aligned with the followed target when linear walking or curve walking of the robot is carried out, and the followed target isnot prone to be lost.

Description

technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of intelligent robots, in particular to a following robot. Background technique [0002] Pedestrian following and interaction means that the fully autonomous mobile robot follows the target pedestrian within a certain safe distance, and obtains the next step instruction through friendly interaction with the target pedestrian. At present, with the expansion of the application field of robots, following and interacting with pedestrians has become one of the important functions that many service robots need to have, such as shopping malls and supermarkets service robots and military auxiliary combat robots. [0003] Currently, robots are equipped with various sensors to measure the environment. However, robots equipped with vision sensors and ranging sensors have problems such as relatively simple scenes of following pedestrians and low accuracy of gesture recognition. In a complex environment, such as a crow...

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Problems solved by technology

However, robots equipped with vision sensors and ranging sensors have problems such as relatively simple scenes of following pedestrians and low accuracy of gesture recognition.

In a complex environment, such as a crowded train station, it is very easy for the robot to lose track of the target or it is difficult to recognize the target gesture

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