Development of a human-robot cooperative control system

• Main Author: Sayyed Omar Kamal Bin Syed Zin Al-Jufry
• Other Authors: Cheah Chien Chern
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Control and instrumentation
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/60811
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

During the final year of study in the course for the Bachelor’s in Electrical & Electronics Engineering in Nanyang Technological University, the student was assigned to the Final Year Project for Safe Human-Robot Interaction under the supervision of Associate Professor Cheah Chien Chern. The project’s objective was achieved through the use of a Microsoft Kinect depth sensor to monitor the position of a SCARA robot and determine safety actions to be taken by the robot. The Kinect was programmed through the Processing IDE on the student’s laptop while the SCARA robot was pre-programmed in Visual C++ on the robotics lab’s Windows 2000 PC. Communication between the two computers was achieved through the use of a router to establish a private network between the computers.