Robot Head Follows Your Face Movement

http://taylor.veltrop.com/robotics/khrhumanoid.php This is my KHR-1HV. I have added a 2DOF head with two cameras. The cameras transmit the video to a laptop, which processes the video. Commands to move the head are then sent back to the robot via Bluetooth. The machine vision is a quick hack with the face recognition demo from OpenCV, using a single haar cascade. Then I used some trigonometry to calculate the head movement.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• robot
• machine-vision
• khr-1hv
• face-tracking
• opencv
• artificial-intelligence
• ai
• taylor-veltrop
• haar-cascade

[galadolly]

that is very impressive; exactly what I tried to do with my robot. I tried to do that with my robot, but the source code I was using was designed for stationary cameras. Are you willing to share? Does your source work with DotNet?

[taylorveltrop]

@galadolly The source code is on my Veltrobot website which is linked in the video description. It's in the RoboCom OSX package and free to download. The face recognition simply uses OpenCV. You'd have to adapt the code to work with dotnet.

[bazfanv2]

Its going to terminate you, once it breaks free.

[dracovan]

Super cool Taylor! <3

:D

[Esurname]

Nice work , must have taken ages to write the software to get this far . When i finish building my robot i should be able to do the same, but i tend to use mainly hardware as for some processes its always faster.