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This paper describes an integrated mobile robotic system dubbed the intelligent observer (IO). The IO is a mobile robot which moves through an environment (such as an office building or a factory) while autonomously observing moving targets selected by a human operator. The robot carries one or more cameras which allow it to track objects while at the same time sensing its own location. It interacts with a human user who issues task-level commands, such as indicating a target to track by clicking in a camera image. The user could be located far away from the observer itself, communicating with the robot over a network. As the IO performs its tasks, the system provides real-time visual feedback to the user. We have implemented a prototype of the IO which integrates basic versions of five major components: landmark detection, target tracking, motion planning, motion control, and user interface. We have performed initial experiments using this prototype, which demonstrate the successful integration of these components and the utility of the overall systems.
This research was founded by ARPA grant N00014-94-1-0721-P01 (ONR) and by an NSF/ARPA contract for ANVIL through the University of Pennsylvania. C. Becker is supported in part by an NSF Graduate Fellowship.
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Becker, C., González-Baños, H., Latombe, J.C., Tomasi, C. (1997). An intelligent observer. In: Khatib, O., Salisbury, J.K. (eds) Experimental Robotics IV. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 223. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0035206
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