Research on intelligent flowerpots control system based on Kinect

 

ZHANG Xin, XV Wensheng, LIU Jieping, YAO Yanan

(School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China)

 

Abstract: Aiming at the control problem of flowerpots system which can transform patterns in real time based on humanmachine interactions, the integration of human motion sensing technology and control system was studied, and an intelligent flowerpots control system based on motion sensing technology was proposed. By using Microsoft′s Kinect device, the body motions were identified by the control system, and different motions were defined and encoded by the system, and corresponding position instructions were sent out to the intelligent flowerpots system. The intelligent flowerpots system, which is composed of multiple wheeled robots, could move according to the position instructions and form different patterns after receiving these instructions wirelessly. The results indicate that the control system can identify different motions of the human body effectively and accurately, and correspondingly the intelligent flowerpots can form corresponding patterns. The system not only has high exhibition value, but also can be used in interactive science education.

Key words: Kinect; intelligent flowerpots; control system