Abstract
Small humanoid robots can enter the narrow space, so there is hope that they work for lifesaving at the time of disaster or house-sitting in the home. In order to work enough in such spaces, the robot must move freely over obstacles like stairs or heaps of nibble. In this research, as the robot can move freely we propose to develop the remote operation system. Kinect that is a high-performance camera is mounted to the robot, and the operator recognizes the surrounding environment though Kinect. And operator can control the robot, the operation is reflected to the experimental robot. As the first step, we started recognition of surrounding environment and the body movement with Kinect.
