Kinect gesture mobile control through wireless network for NAO robot

• Main Author: Wei, Qianjun
• Other Authors: Song Qing
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Control and instrumentation::Robotics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/60504
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

NAO robot remote control with gestures is a new way to control the robot. Due to the image and video processing technologies development, and the Kinect device can provide a better gesture and voices recognition than ever. Gestures control and synchronize control were come out to make an easy way to control the robot. In this report, it will indicate how to define a gesture, then how to ensure the Kinect can detect the gesture and recognized it. Voice detection will be explored and voice commands will be used to control the robot as well. To make the robot like the human much more, synchronize user’s movement to the robot was used to control it, relative angle for each part of arm need to be calculated and transmit to the robot. Moreover, web page was used to control the robot with a web server, this is to ensure multiplatform accessible. Lastly, how to make a link between robot and different device were presented in the report as well. At last part of the report, relative topics are suggested for future researches as well. This report is not focus on the theories proving, but focus on the application of the knowledge. So in this report, how to implement the ideas are presented.