Advanced robotic arm control using Kinect

kinect_teleoperation

[Ryan Lloyd], [Sandeep Dhull], and [Ruben D'Sa] wrote in to share a robotics project they have been keeping busy with lately. The three University of Minnesota students are using a Kinect sensor to remotely control a robotic arm, but it’s not as simple as it sounds.

Using OpenNI alongside PrimeSense, the team started out by doing some simple skeleton … Read the rest