Kinect with Labview

sonotfunny · April 2, 2012, 12:47pm

I am wondering if anyone has gotten kinect working with labview and if you did i have a few questions i want to ask you.

rachelholladay · April 2, 2012, 5:57pm

I was the student lead for my team when we beta tested with the Kinect with LabVIEW this fall. We have a dual autonomous mode, one of which is Kinect based. I can try to answer any questions you have. On the request of a few teams we have published a Kinect manual that can be found at http://team1912.com/docs/kinectmanual.pdf and all of our Kinect findings from beta testing can be found at http://team1912.com/beta_testing.html

2185Bilal · April 2, 2012, 6:47pm

We tried to use kinect…what we were never able to get it running…like the skeleton wont even show up

mommazzboy · April 3, 2012, 10:46am

I’ve done a little bit of work with it. What would you like to know?

AGPapa · April 5, 2012, 7:28pm

It is super easy to set up the Kinect in LabVIEW. In Begin.vi open up two joysticks with the inputs being “Kinect 1” and “Kinect 2”. The Kinect is already set up to act as a joystick.

Scroll down to the Kinect sections of this document http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default/files/uploadedFiles/Robotics_Programs/FRC/Game_and_Season__Info/2012_Assets/Getting%20Started%20with%20the%202012%20FRC%20Control%20System_2.pdf to find out how to set up the Kinect and find out what gestures correspond to which buttons.

2185Bilal · April 8, 2012, 6:59pm

Yeah, im the programmer, and i tried that. but when i go to the dashboard, it doesnt show the kinect as connected

is it maybe because im not using the small laptop…that FIRST provides

Greg_McKaskle · April 9, 2012, 10:44am

No, but it may be that you haven’t installed the same SW as what was installed on the small laptop.

In other words, run through the Kinect checklist, see if the MS examples work, etc.

Greg McKaskle

2185Bilal · April 11, 2012, 8:20pm

Yes, i have went through list, an all the examples work

Greg_McKaskle · April 11, 2012, 8:31pm

If the examples work and the SW is versioned beta 2, then the Kinect Server should work. If needed, it can be launched in a debug mode that will leave its window open and give more info if there is an issue. If the server is working, then everything else is just shoving the info around and displaying it.

If you have more information about where it fails, please provide it.

Greg McKaskle

2185Bilal · April 13, 2012, 5:05pm

uhmmm… the server…what is that…i tried finding like the folder on my computer and i could not.

Mark_McLeod · April 13, 2012, 5:20pm

So, you’re getting an error message about the Kinect Server?
There is a button on the Operations Tab that will restart it.

In addition to knowing what the error message says, there are a couple of places to look for Kinect status that would be helpful to know:

On the Operation tab is a Kinect box outlined in (red or green) and the silhouettes for two people (gray or green)
On the Driver Station Diagnostics tab, the Kinect is listed next to a light (gray, red or green). To the right is a button that will restart the Kinect Server.
There is also a Kinect status at the very bottom that should have some text message beside it.
Depending on what errors and statuses you see there are various things to try to clear up the problem.

If the Kinect Server is failing, then you can run it in debug mode and get more information.
It’s located on your PC under C://Program Files/FRC Kinect Server/KinectServer Debug Mode