Development of an Entertainment Indoor Blimp Robot Based On Hovering Control

Abstract

In this paper, we report the development of the entertainment blimp robot which can make several reactive behaviors for user's appeal. The blimp robot has a wireless CCD camera and wireless microphone at the bottom of body, and rotates or goes upward/downward by trigger of user's handclap. To make variety reactions of the blimp robot, a sequence of robot behavior is generated based on the nondeterministic finite state machine. In addition, the stable flying behavior is achieved by the proposed hovering control based on grounded red circle landmarks. Throughout an experiment, we confirm that the blimp robot can fly long-term with user-interaction.