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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Sierra García, J. Enrique author Fernández Rodríguez, Víctor author Santos Peñas, Matilde author Quevedo, Eduardo author 2023-04-30 Automatic guided vehicles, in particular, and industrial autonomous mobile robots, in general, are commonly used to automate intralogistics processes. However, there are certain logistic tasks, such as picking objects of variable sizes, shapes, and physical characteristics, that are very difficult to handle fully automatically. In these cases, the collaboration between humans and autonomous robots has been proven key for the efficiency of industrial processes and other applications. To this aim, it is necessary to develop person-following robot solutions. In this work, we propose a fully autonomously controlling autonomous robotic interaction for environments with unknown objects based on real experiments. To do so, we have developed an active tracking system and a control algorithm to implement the person-following strategy on a real industrial automatic-guided vehicle. The algorithm analyzes the cloud of points measured by light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor to detect and track the target. From this scan, it estimates the speed of the target to obtain the speed reference value and calculates the direction of the reference by a pure-pursuit algorithm. In addition, to enhance the robustness of the solution, spatial and temporal filters have been implemented to discard obstacles and detect crossings between humans and the automatic industrial vehicle. Static and dynamic test campaigns have been carried out to experimentally validate this approach with the real industrial autonomous-guided vehicle and a safety LIDAR. Sierra-García, J.E.; Fernández-Rodríguez, V.; Santos, M.; Quevedo, E. Development and Experimental Validation of Control Algorithm for Person-Following Autonomous Robots. Electronics 2023, 12, 2077. https://doi.org/10.3390/ electronics12092077 10.3390/electronics12092077 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/103981 2079-9292 https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12092077 https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/9/2077 Development and experimental validation of control algorithm for person-following autonomous robots