Controlling Robots using a Wiimote and Gesture Recognition

[Dan Richardson]

Originally Posted by m3ch4num470r

Sorry to burst your bubble, guys, but Wiimotes use bluetooth, which is strictly forbidden at FIRST events.

That being said, it would be awesome if rules were changed so wiimotes were legal. Still, from my experience with the Wii, I'll take a pair of joysticks or a GC controller any day.

So was wifi til this year, but their bursting that bubble. I'm willing to guess over the next few years we are going to see different allowances for controlling devices. I also I believe your completely missing the point, The robot drives via gesture recognition. This means that when you perform an action the robot drives. Now the tool they use in this operation, happens to be the Wii mote. The input tool can change, and eventually will change because the wiimote is impractical. Imagine having a glove, or something similar that could respond in the same manner, the usage of bluetooth has absolutely no impact on the implimentation. JAUS is a communications standard which would allow the robot to respond the exact same way with the different interface ( providing the interface was telling the bot to do the same thing )

I agree, about the joysticks thing, especially with most FIRST robots, however if a team so desired a sub autonomous robot that took input via gesture recognition, holy cow I think that would blow peoples minds. Plus its a robotics competition, its cool to potentially start using robotic standards.