Development of an entertainment robot system using Kinect

Abstract

As one of home services by a mobile manipulator system, we are aiming at the realization of the assist for elderly people. The purpose of this work is to develop a robot system that provides mental support for elderly people as one part of the home services. We have developed a rock-paper-scissors-Atchimuitehoi gaming system as entertainment robot system by using Kinect v2 as human robot interface. In this paper, the configuration of the developed system is described. And the basic algorithms for recognition of human action as well as voice are proposed and implemented. Finally the feasibility of the system is shown by the experimental results using the developed prototype.