Keep up with Me: A Gesture Guided Moving Robot with Microsoft Kinect

Abstract

In this demo, we present a gesture guided moving robot with Microsoft Kinect device. The demo shows two basic operational capabilities: first, the human gestures can be recognized and used to drive the robot moving; second, the moving robot is programmable, and can move according to the instructions sent over serial port; third and most important, the application can leverage the depth data provided by Kinect to keep the relatively stable distance with the operating people. This demo system shows the basic operations when human are interacting with the mobile devices. Further, it can be used for aiding the disabled person or shipping equipments for soldiers.