Visual Analysis of Robot and Animal Colonies
| Autor: | A.P. del Pobil, Ester Martínez |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
0209 industrial biotechnology
business.industry Computer science Event (computing) Tracking system Robotics 02 engineering and technology 020901 industrial engineering & automation Human–computer interaction 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Table (database) Robot 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing Movement (clockwork) Artificial intelligence business |
| Zdroj: | Swarm Robotics from Biology to Robotics |
| Popis: | We have presented a tracking application to study micro-robots or social insect cooperative behavior without the risk of conditioning the results by tagging them. Our system has been compared with previous ones, and namely with Swistrack, an application intended to control mixed societies. Although this previous study had the same goal, the authors deal with the tracking problem in a different way. The given results have shown the robustness of our application with regard to lighting conditions. Also, no special illumination is required and performances do not depend on the surrounding objects, as for example it occurs in Swistrack. Our designed method also solves situations in which there are several objects touching one another and it can match an object position in one frame with its position in the next frame. It is also capable of detecting objects even though their velocity is very slow or if they do not move, a case typically difficult for similar methods. As a further achievement, our application only requires two parameters from the user: the number of target objects and their maximum speed. No thresholds need to be set manually. Overall, we have designed an application transparent to the user who does not need to know the implementation details to work with it. So far, our application has only been tested with homogeneous robotic societies. As further research, we plan to test it with mixed societies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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