Robust Method for Robotic Guidance Using Line Following Method
Mohammed Sahib, Loay Kadom, Dhuha Basheer Abdullah · 2014
The motivation we address in current research is to establish a robotic control system to follow a line was drawn on the ground. Thus, the design of such system required to be consisted of two parts; hardware and software. The hardware part is stand for the robot, while the software part is playing the role of controller. The robot consists of robot body, which is a toy car including on its board a visual sensor to see the planned path. Other robot's parts are just communication and control devices. On the other side, the controller is software was established to receive captured images from the camera carried on the robot board, and then these images are processed to issue the guidance decisions. The adopted image processing makes the resulted decisions to be more accurate. Later, the controller converts the decisions into commands, which are sent to the robot as wireless signals. The robot receives and implements these commands. Frequently, the robot senses its environment and sends data to the controller and the controller issue its commands for the robot, and so the control process is. Frequent experiments and analysis showed that the behavior of the robot was acceptable and it was enjoying with the ability to follow the planned path.