Abstract
We are developing a mobile robot system which searches targeted industrial tools and clears up them in the laboratory room. First, this robot moves to the front of tool board and checks the tools which are not returned, and registers them as the clearing targets. Then, this robot runs round in the room and searches them from desks, to bring them back to the board. There are many technological subjects to realize such a robot. In these subjects, searching targeted tools are essential one. In this paper, we propose a method for searching targeted tools by image processing. And, we show implementation of the prototype robot and experimental results of searching targeted tools in the laboratory room.
