Master-slave system using Kinect and an industrial robot for teleoperations

In this paper, we report the integration of a Kinect sensor device with a robotic arm Kuka KR6 as a master-slave communication for applications of teleoperation and bioengineering. The Kinect device captures the position of the user´s right hand, filters its resulting data and detects its movement using Haar wavelets. This data is then sent to the Kuka KR6 controller and it moves using forward kinematics. A series of tests were implemented to evaluate the accuracy of the slave system position compared to the user´s right hand position using the Pearson correlation coefficient method. It resulted in a very strong correlation between them.