Seekur Jr.

This project is the result of my work at GTRI ELSYS during the summer of 2012. The project equips Mobile Robot’s Seekur Jr robot with a kinect, which it uses to autonomously generate a map of its environment while navigating successfully to a user-defined destination.

The code and a summary are available.

The robot uses the Point Cloud Library (PCL) to process the 3D data from the kinect.

Mobile Robot’s ARIA library was used for communication with Seekur Jr’s microcontroller.

Voice commands and feedback were added using Microsoft’s Speech API (SAPI).

The only additional sensor added to the robot was Microsoft’s Kinect sensor.

This project was developed using Visual C++ 2010 Express Edition (now part of Visual Studio.