The Location of Quadruped Robot with Hand-Fused-Foot Based on Binocular Vision

Robot location is a key technology of quadruped robot with Hand-fused-Foot. The location method based on binocular vision system is studied for quadruped robot with Hand-fused-Foot. After obtaining image by a single camera, the object is segmented by using characteristic extraction method based on color characteristic. Then image processing such as filtering (de-noising) and opening is performed. The object is identified and its centroid coordinate in image is obtained. Location of robot based on environment reference--object coordinate is achieved. Experiments show the effectiveness and the accuracy (within 4cm) of the method.

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