Implementation of Mobile Robot Prototype for Tracking Object Using Pixy2 CMUCam5 and Buzzer

With the advancement of technology, many research studies have been conducted to create robots that resemble living beings, capable of moving, recognizing objects, and assisting human tasks. One form of this aspect is the development of an automatic tracking object system using a mobile robot. This research aims to produce a mobile robot prototype for tracking object using camera technology as the main component in the object tracking process. The created mobile robot system can differentiate objects based on color and automatically approach the target object based on several aspects, as it applies an autonomous mobile robot system. The values used as references in this system include position values (turn), light intensity, and the detected area of the object captured by the camera. This study combines two main components, namely hardware and software. The hardware components consist of Pixy CMU Cam5 for object recognition, a buzzer as a marker indicating that the robot has reached the object and stopped moving, a DC motor as the robot's movement mechanism to approach the target object, L298N Motor Driver Shield for processing the DC motor from the microcontroller, and Arduino UNO as the main microcontroller in the mobile robot prototype for object tracking. The software components consist of the PixyMon application used for configuring color-based digital image objects and the Arduino IDE used for programming the robot's movement system after it has recognized the object, which is then uploaded to the microcontroller. The conducted testing showed that the DC motor can move according to the specified specifications, and Pixy CMUCam5 can capture the position, area, and color values of the configured object.