[ROS Tutorials] ROS Perception #Unit6: People Tracking

Learn how to do people tracking in ROS.

In this final Unit about person HRI, you will learn how to make a robot follow people around and detect when they approach so that you can avoid them or stop. This skill is absolutely essential for robots in public spaces, like museums and malls. It's also important in HRI because a robot has to be able to follow a person, like its instructor, to go wherever it's needed.

[The course is available here]
ROS Perception course: http://www.theconstructsim.com/construct-learn-develop-robots-using-ros/robotigniteacademy_learnros/ros-courses-library/ros-perception-in-5-days/

[ About the course ]
Perception is probably one of the most important things when we talk about autonomy. In this course you will learn how perception is performed by robots using the ROS Framework.

You will learn:
- Use OpenCV with ROS
- Make robots track objects by their colour blobs
- Make robots navigate following floor lines with only a RGB camera
- Make robots detect human faces and track them
- Make robots recognise different faces
- Make robots track a person through a 3D environment
- Make robots recognise flat surfaces, like tables where objects might be placed
- Make robots recognise objects and track them in a 3D space with PointCloudSensors

[ Robots Used in this course ]
- Mira Robot for Blob Tracking
- TurtleBot for line following
- Fetch Robot for people and object tracking, and detection in different environments.
- Aibo Robot for the Final Project


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// Robot Ignite Academy is a series of online web courses and ROS tutorials giving you the tools and knowledge to be able to understand and create any ROS based robotics development.

How it works:
* no installation and devices required
* ideal for beginner/intermediate roboticist aiming to become proficient in ROS
* integrates ROS theory and practice, learn by programming different simulated robots.
* ROS teaching material and exam provided