Red Object Follower Robot

The robot is programmed to follow a red object and maintain a specific distance. First of all camera installed on robot, takes picture of the environment, in which specific red object is detected. Once the red object is detected, the robot gets the information from depth sensor that how far I am to the object. Based on this information, control law then drives the robot.The lost object functionality is also introduced when the object goes out of the robot sight, it stops and look around until it sees that object. The programming is done in MATLAB and it involves computer vision algorithms to detect red object. Kinect sensor was used to get the depth of the object which gives information to the robot that how far or how close I am to the object. Using this depth information and pixel information of the position of red object in the image, control law was formulated which controls the speed of the robot and also manage to keep a specific distance between robot and the object.

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