Design and Development of a Real-time Multi-object Detection and Tracking Vision System for MP-R Patrol Robot**********

由于现代城市的潜在威胁发生了巨大变化，公共安全已成为当今社会面临的挑战之一。此外，这个问题高度关系到对人的吸引力和经济的成功。公共安全通常依赖于地方和联邦警察的能力。然而，报道的范围总是有限的，这可能会导致犯罪和恐怖主义造成严重的悲剧。因此，可以使用巡逻机器人来解决这个问题。**本提案的目标是提出一个基于ESI机器人技术公司开发的MR-P机器人平台的实时目标识别和跟踪系统的六个月研发计划。该项目将解决挑战并具备以下能力：1)实时视觉和图像处理系统；2)鲁棒目标识别与跟踪；3)被跟踪目标的姿态估计。**该项目的成果及其应用将大大提高机器人目前的视觉能力，更好地服务于ESI的产品目标

Public safety has become one of the challenges nowadays since the potential threats of modern cities have dramatically changed. Moreover, this issue highly relates to the attraction of people and the success of economy. Public safety usually relies on the ability of the local and federal police. However, there is always a limitation of coverage which may lead to serious tragedy due to crime and terrorism. Therefore, patrolling robots can be involved to address the issue.**The objective of this proposal presents a six-month research and development plan of a real-time object identification and tracking system based on the MR-P robot platform developed by ESI's Robotic Technology. The project will address challenges and have abilities: 1) Real-time vision and image processing system; 2) Robust object identification and tracking and 3) Pose estimation of the tracked object.**The outcomes of the project and its applications will greatly improve the current vision capability of the robot, which can better serve the product goal of the ESI.**