This paper presents an efficient method of obstacle recognition system and HRI (human robot interaction) system specialized
for biped walking robot. This method transmits the information regarding obstacle conditions to a biped walking robot. In
the present paper, we describe a cascade of boosted classifier using adaboost algorithm as a obstacle region extracting module
from input images. Besides, PCA is applied as a feature extracting module from the obstacle region and a hierarchical support
vector machine is applied as an obstacle recognizing module. The data from vision system is combined with information from
other sensors and the walking assist commands transmit to the biped walking robot. From the results of experiments, the proposed
method can be applied to biped walking robot effectively.
Keywords Vision system - Biped robot - Walking assistant system