Teleoperation control of Baxter robot using body motion tracking

H. Reddivari, C. Yang, Z. Ju, P. Liang, Z. Li, B. Xu

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Abstract

In this paper, we use Kinect Xbox 360 sensor to implement the motion control of Baxter robot, a semi humanoid robot with limbs of 7 DOF joints with collision avoidance capabilities. Two different methods using vector approach and inverse kinematics approach have been designed to achieve a given task. Primitive experiments have been carried out to verify the effectiveness of the developed methods. Human motions is captured by Kinect sensor and calculated with Processing Software using SimpleOpenNI wrapper for OpenNI and NITE. UDP protocol is adopted to send reference motion to Baxter robot. Python and RosPy script programming kit is used to calculate joint angles of Baxter robot based on vector approach and inverse kinematics approach. The experimental results demonstrate that both of our proposed approaches have achieved satisfactory performance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2014 International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Information Integration for Intelligent Systems, MFI 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781479967322
DOIs
StatePublished - 23 Dec 2014
Event2014 International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Information Integration for Intelligent Systems, MFI 2014 - Beijing, China
Duration: 28 Sep 201430 Sep 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings of 2014 International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Information Integration for Intelligent Systems, MFI 2014

Conference

Conference2014 International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Information Integration for Intelligent Systems, MFI 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period28/09/1430/09/14

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