A Universal Mobile robot for assistive tasks

We have been developing a Universal Mobile robot for Assistive tasks (UMA). The aim of UMA is to assist elderly and disabled person in an indoor location. UMA is able to transport daily use objects by following the user. This paper presents an early construction of UMA and experimental result of following a user using visual tracking as a first step.

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