Kinect-based control of a DaNI robot via body gesture

Abstract

This paper presents a body gesture-based controlled mobile robot system, consisting of a DaNI robot, a Kinect sensor, and a Pan-Tilt camera. The Kinect sensor is used to track skeletons and joints of an operator for controlling the robot, while the pan-tilt camera is used to feed back live videos around surrounding information. The DaNI robot platform is a powerful tool for teaching robotics and mechatronics concepts or for developing a robot prototype with LabVIEW Robotics. The body gesture-based controller telepresence controls the DaNI robot by interpreting movements of the two hands of the operator.