Programmers: I Have A Challenge For You

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by DDSLoan96

What you could try doing is incorporating Kinect into your Robot...

It's very likely that the Kinect's depth perception hardware will be prohibited on the robot under the "no lasers" rule. We'll find out next month whether it's an option.

I'd like to find out if two Kinect sensors pointed at the same object would interfere with each other. Does anyone here know if someone has tried it?

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

It's very likely that the Kinect's depth perception hardware will be prohibited on the robot under the "no lasers" rule. We'll find out next month whether it's an option.

I'd like to find out if two Kinect sensors pointed at the same object would interfere with each other. Does anyone here know if someone has tried it?

There is minimal interefernce between multiple Kinects when pointed at the same object as long as the devices aren't right on top of each other or pointed right at each other. We have not gotten this far at work, the above represents reports from the OpenKinect community.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

It's very likely that the Kinect's depth perception hardware will be prohibited on the robot under the "no lasers" rule. We'll find out next month whether it's an option.

Haven't IR range finders always been legal? [Standard disclaimer about last year's rules]

[mwtidd]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

I'd like to find out if two Kinect sensors pointed at the same object would interfere with each other. Does anyone here know if someone has tried it?

This video is first example I've found of two images being merged in a 3d environment. He talks about and shows the interference, which is fairly minimal.
Note the video is actually a 3d recreation, notice how at the end he is able to move around the space.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-w7UXCAUJE


also here's a video of mit's kinectbot
does 3d mapping and gesture recognition.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRPEns8MS2o