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It is vital for mobile robots to maintain safe and stable operation in environments with slopes, e.g. airports and shopping malls. Different slopes correspond to different accelerations of robots, and the robot also require different driving forces or braking forces to go up or down different slopes. If the robot does not have the ability to recognize of the slope, it cannot generate suitable commands according to the change of slope. That is to say, when going uphill, the lack of driving force may cause the robot to stagnate on the slope; when downhill, insufficient braking force may cause the robot to lose control. To solve such problems, a slope estimation algorithm is proposed in this paper based on RGB-D camera. Firstly, we use the RGB-D camera to obtain the information of the road surface. Secondly, the edge of the slope is detected by Canny Edge Detection Algorithm. Finally, the slope is estimated based on the …