Object Recognition for Obstacle Avoidance in Mobile Robots

In this paper is shown an obstacle avoidance strategy based on object recognition using an artificial vision application. Related works focus on the implementation of efficient algorithms for image processing. This work emphasizes in using minimum information from an image in order to generate free obstacles trajectories. The algorithm used is based on Pattern Matching for detection of the robot and Classification for the rest of objects. Each form of detection has its particular algorithm: Cross Correlation for Pattern matching and Nearest Neighbor for Classification. The objective pursued is to demonstrate that, with a very simple system, precise information can be provided to a navigation system in order to find free obstacle paths.