Development of Leader Follower Robot

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This paper discusses the development of a leader follower robot based on visual trackin_- In leader follower approach, one robot acts as a leader whose motion defines the path for the follower robots. The entire follower robots use the path defined by the leader to achie\ e a defined task or to attain a certain goal. The advancement o f the technology of videc acquisition has made devices better and cost-effective. Thereby, many applications those will effectively utilize digital video can be identified. Compared to still images, video sequences provide more information about how objects and scenarios change over time The strategy copes with the tracking and following of a single object in a sequence of frames and the co-ordinate of the object can be determined. The object tracking video is recorded using a wireless camera and then transmitted into a computer. Then using the software artifact named 'Roborealm', the video is processed and analysed, hence the objee: can be detected and coordinates of the detected object is calculated. The object is trackec by plotting a square bounding box around it in each frame.