Kinect Workspace Robot Surveillance and Collision Detection

Submitted by Jared; Fri, 2011/02/04 - 11:49am

Kinect Workspace Robot Surveillance and Collision Detection

Tired of pesky robots in your work space getting in your way all the time? Are you in constant fear that one of them is going to accidentally mangle you to pieces without even realizing it? Well you should be, those things are crazy dangerous.

There is hope for you though if you're living in constant fear of these things. No need to go quitting your job on that assembly line just yet. The good folks at JAHIR - Joint-Action for Humans and Industrial Robots - have created a Kinect enabled robot workspace surveillance for human industrial robot collaboration. What that means exactly is that Kinect, using OpenNI, is able to track a human and automatically send this tracking data to an interface between the Kinect and a industrial robot so that it will dynamically avoid contact with that human being.

Watch the demonstration below for more on this very interesting and potentially life saving Kinect hack.

Kinect Workspace Robot Surveillance and Collision Detection
Submitted by Guest (not verified) on Tue, 2011/02/08 - 3:35pm.

The robot is pretty much where the kinect should be - how was the setup done? Wouldn't the robot shadow the human in reality? I hope you're not using the kinect or openNI in a potentially health threatening environment, as it is clearly not made for this.

Submitted by baxpace (not verified) on Tue, 2011/02/08 - 4:30pm.

The interface between the human, robot and Kinect is not designed to track gestures and have the robot duplicate them, it's actually designed to move out of the way when a human get's too close, potentially saving lives or serious injury.

Submitted by guest (not verified) on Tue, 2011/02/08 - 4:35pm.

So I don't get this. What is the value of this simulation?? Where is the real human, the real kinect with its noisy pointcloud and the real robot??Simulating is bronce, real preception in the loop with simulated action is silver, real perception and real action is gold...

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on Tue, 2011/02/08 - 7:00pm.

Maybe a real Kinect is tracking a real human... just a suggestion :-)And Kinect supports the skeleton tracking, so why show the noisy point cloud?I don't get it...

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on Sun, 2011/02/13 - 10:22am.

Please refer to this golden video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Submitted by Claus (not verified) on Mon, 2011/02/14 - 9:41am.

Thank you for posting my videos here on your great website!I also uploaded today a video with multiple persons interacting with the robot.Maybe this is also interesting for you!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Submitted by Jared (not verified) on Mon, 2011/02/14 - 2:38pm.

Thanks Claus, thanks for sharing your amazing work! I've edit the post to include your latest video. Cheers!- Jared

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