Kinect and Manipulator-Based Sample Collection System for Military Robot

The present work corresponds to the development of a sample recollection system for the exteriors robotic platform belonging to the manufacturing laboratory. The main objective of the project is the implementation of a manipulator capable of solving an automated process using artificial vision provided by the Kinect device, which provides the necessary parameters such as, required deepness for object location, all this by using free software. Through the construction of an anthropomorphic arm with six degrees of freedom which was designed for the future integration into the project realized by Obando and Sanchez which is mobile platform, an embedded system for object recollection was obtained. Additionally, a graphic interface was implemented which allows the user to visualize the recognized objects giving the user the possibility to control the object recollection operation on a controlled environment, the objects to be taken must be located within a predetermine work area.