DR_2011 Kinect-controlled delta -robot Experiment on non conventional interfaces Digital Ecologies AAC Msc UCL Team Enrique Ramos Ciriaco Castro Miriam Dall'Igna Tutor Ruairi Glynn “Now we’ve got the notion of a machine with an underspecified goal, the system that evolves. This is a new notion, nothing like the notion of machines that was current in the Industrial Revolution, absolutely nothing like it. It is, if you like, a much more biological notion, maybe I’m wrong to call such a thing a machine; I gave that label to it because I like to realise things as artefacts, but you might not call the system a machine, you might call it something else.” Gordon Pask The project set out to build a delta robot controlled by the position of a performer’s hand. In order to achieve this, a Kinect device was used to acquire the three-dimensional data from the performer, Processing to compute the behaviours and inverse kinematics of the robot, and one Arduino board to communicate with the servomotors. A second Kinect device was set on the installation, mapping the environment of the robot, and allowing for two different autonomous behaviours to be implemented. |
