Interactive mechanical arm control system based on Kinect

Abstract

This paper presents a new control method for robot based on body feeling control, which can directly use gestures and body posture to control the robot. This kind of control method will be called motion-sensing technology combined with robot control technology. The Kinect is a 3D body feeling camera, mainly used for body touched as capture. Based on the sensors of the Kinect, the three-dimensional coordinates of the object can be obtained, which is simple and easy to implement in all kinds of complicated environment of 3d model. The features of this paper are to design a simple and convenient way which can quickly be used in a variety of 3D modeling and control system. And in many applications operators can work directly using the robot without special training, which overcomes the traditional complex operation disadvantage. The device body feeling control mechanical arm can work quickly like a human through the analysis of the working environment, and it can work for a longer time than the human, even in the bad environment. The effectiveness of the proposed body feeling control method is verified in the simulation environment of MATLAB\Simulink, and makes comparisons with real human arm motion.