Visual Tag-based Location-Aware System for Household Robots

This paper proposes a location-aware system for household robots which allows users to paste predefined paper tags at different locations according to users’ comprehension of the house. In this system a household robot may be aware of its location and the attributes thereof by visually recognizing the tags when the robot is moving. This paper also presents a novel user interface to define a moving path of the robot, which allows users to draw the path in the air with a finger so as to generate commands for following motions. Keywords—finger tip tracking, household robot, location awareness, tag recognition.

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