Obstacle Avoidance with Robots and Kinect

The Microsoft Kinect is a very useful sensor. The project will use the Kinect's depth sensor to allow a robot to avoid obstacles.

Phase 1 Framework

Robot Side:

Program in LabView to have a single robot move back and forth.

• Robot is passed a new coordinate
• Robot reads and converts coordinate to polar
• Robot rotates to appropriate angle
• Robot moves appropriate Distance

Kinect Side:

• Testing hardware with sample code
• Looking into API for Driver [[1]]

Phase 2 Implementation