  Researchers and robotic development groups have recently started paying
special attention to autonomous mobile robot navigation in indoor environments
using vision sensors. The required data is provided for robot navigation and
object detection using a camera as a sensor. The aim of the project is to
construct a mobile robot that has integrated vision system capability used by a
webcam to locate, track and follow a moving object. To achieve this task,
multiple image processing algorithms are implemented and processed in
real-time. A mini-laptop was used for collecting the necessary data to be sent
to a PIC microcontroller that turns the processes of data obtained to provide
the robot's proper orientation. A vision system can be utilized in object
recognition for robot control applications. The results demonstrate that the
proposed mobile robot can be successfully operated through a webcam that
detects the object and distinguishes a tennis ball based on its color and
shape.
