Kinect-Based Moving Human Tracking System with Obstacle Avoidance

A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Received: 04 March, 2017 Accepted: 14 April, 2017 Online: 24 April, 2017 This paper is an extension of work originally presented and published in IEEE International Multidisciplinary Conference on Engineering Technology (IMCET). This work presents a design and implementation of a moving human tracking system with obstacle avoidance. The system scans the environment by using Kinect, a 3D sensor, and tracks the center of mass of a specific user by using Processing, an open source computer programming language. An Arduino microcontroller is used to drive motors enabling it to move towards the tracked user and avoid obstacles hampering the trajectory. The implemented system is tested under different lighting conditions and the performance is analyzed using several generated depth images.

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