Electronic Science and Technology ›› 2022, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (10): 8-14.doi: 10.16180/j.cnki.issn1007-7820.2022.10.002

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Design of Heterogeneous and Low-Power Following Robot System

WANG Qinghai,YANG Fangyan   

  1. School of Mechanical Engineering,University of Shanghai for Science and Technology,Shanghai 200093,China
  • Received:2021-03-26 Online:2022-10-15 Published:2022-10-25
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(61773083)

Abstract:

In the single-task mode, the service robot has a small application field and a low degree of intelligence. In the case of multitasking, the computing power cost of service robots is high, which leads to a significant increase in energy consumption and shortens the battery life.In view of the above problems, a low-power, multitask follow-up robot system based on the ROS platform is designed in this study,and the system can realize intelligent switching under two tasks of fixed-point cruise and visual follow-up.In terms of hardware, a low-energy heterogeneous computing platform is established to ensure that the same computing power is output while reducing energy consumption. In terms of software, according to the nature of the heterogeneous computing platform, the algorithm framework of the follow-up robot system is designed. The robot system uses the state transition control method based on Markov chain to realize the state switching of each module.The experimental results show that the proposed robot system can reduce energy consumption by 75%, and can realize the real-time switching between fixed-point cruise and target following in function.

Key words: low energy consumption, multitask, fixed-point cruise, visual following, Markov chain, state transition, system design, ROS

CLC Number: 

  • TN256