A Robot-Assisted Missing Child Search Approach

In recent years, the development of intelligent robotic systems capable of detecting and tracking individuals using computer vision and artificial intelligence has gathered attention in the field of robot-assisted applications. Such intelligent and collaborative robots that operate in the vicinity of humans make significant strides in various public and private sectors. This workin-progress paper discusses a preliminary integrated robot system that utilizes a lightweight object detection and facial recognition techniques, namely OpenCV Haar Cascade, VGGFace and other navigation and tracking packages to enable a robot to search, identify and follow a person based on real-time streaming video and sonar sensor inputs. This study establishes a preliminary model to enable seamless robot and human cooperation in unknown environments.