1706 Skeleton Tracker
 

As indicated by our previous posts the Ratchet Rockers has been in the process of developing a skeleton tracker for robot control. It was built with this competition's controls in mind, however it should be easily adaptable to future competitions.

The program uses the positions of the left and right hand to determine action commands to send and emulation of a controller stick for speed and turning values.

It is set up to communicate with the robot using UDP messages. The format of the messages is detailed along with the source code. The software is written in C# .NET 4.5.

The source code and an installer are available. The kinect runtime or the kinect SDK may be required. By default, the installed version sends UDPs to 127.0.0.1 on port 80.

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