Chief Delphi - Video: Driving Miss Daisy...with a Kinect

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Re: Video: Driving Miss Daisy...with a Kinect

I might not use the Kinect in competition, just because of the time it takes the robot to respond, but I would use this for recruiting purposes :D This is simply amazing!

Re: Video: Driving Miss Daisy...with a Kinect

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Originally Posted by James Rutheford (Post 1087852)

I might not use the Kinect in competition, just because of the time it takes the robot to respond, but I would use this for recruiting purposes :D This is simply amazing!

What Jared found is that changing laptops can greatly improve your response time.
We have no idea how they will use the Kinect or if they will use the Kinect in the 2012 game.
However my guess would be that the GDC will try to make it "compelling" to use the Kinect if it's part of the game. In other words they may give you the option, but make the task very hard to achieve with straight autonomous. Again this is all guess work.

Re: Video: Driving Miss Daisy...with a Kinect

This looks really awesome!

My only concern is e-stop. If you have the kinect on the driver station table, and you are standing as far away from it as you are in the video, you will have to walk a considerable distance to get to the e-stop. One solution I am thinking of is a wearable e-stop button.

Great work!