This page reports on the first experimental results obtained (in October 2006) from the integration of the activities of three CyberWalk partners: TUM, ETH, and ourselves (UOR). We tested our control laws on the small-scale ball array platform developed by TUM. A car-like robot carrying a picture of human head and shoulders represents the walking user. The position and orientation of the car are extracted from the images acquired by a fixed overlooking camera. The design and implementation of the visual tracking algorithm have been performed by ETH. |
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A sketch of the mechanics of the CyberCarpet. |
A picture of the small-scale prototype. |
An example of the tracking system. |
The overall architecture (platform actuation + visual tracking + control laws) was tested on several relevant scenarios.
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Martin (TUM) | Michael (ETH) | Paolo (UOR) |