LabVIEW Kinect Light and Depth

[Wolfgang]

Does anybody out there know if we can use LabVIEW to communicate with the Kinect and detect reflective tape and depth? If so try to describe or explain here.

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by Wolfgang

Does anybody out there know if we can use LabVIEW to communicate with the Kinect and detect reflective tape and depth? If so try to describe or explain here.

Yes. You can. I would, however, recommend not putting the kinect on your robot - it'll be much more work than necessary. The axis camera we've used in the past will work just fine. I explain a little bit about image processing and depth finding in this thread. Check it out.

[Greg McKaskle]

It isn't clear, but I assume that you mean putting the Kinect on the robot. Personally, I think that is a big project, likely involving yet another platform to program and connect.

The white paper on the NI site and on CD will give some other ideas for locating the target.

If you are serious about using the Kinect, I'd suggest that you break it down very carefully and identify how it will work and why it is worth the effort.

Greg McKaskle