2018; Telexistence Robot (Robotics Club)

Introduction

The inspiration for the project – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9gSZwVMybc

Ever wanted to check what’s going outside your door while you lie at the comfort of your bed? That is, to get something done without getting out of your comfort zone. Sounds cool right?

We built a telexistence robot as a part of TechEvince 2018 under Robotics Club during our freshman year (So, you can call it the first complete project under the club)

The robot base was controlled using hand gestures while the camera at the top was controlled through the orientation of a VR headset.

TL; DR –

1. Get the video feed from the camera on the robot using a Raspberry Pi and host it on an HTTP server.

2. Display the live video feed on a phone attached inside the VR headset for the Telexistence effect.

3. An MPU-6050 attached to the VR headset tracks the user’s head orientation and sends corresponding commands to the servo attached to the camera to follow the motion.

4. The base of the robot can also be controlled using hand gestures using another set of Arduino and MPU-6050.

   
   

The complete project details has been documented by one of the team members, Pratyush Sharma : https://www.instructables.com/id/VR-Vision/

The team members are:

1. Rohit Kumar

2. Pratyush Sharma

3. Ankit Saini

4. Vaibhav Singh

5. Guining Pertin

6. Sparsh Dutta

7. Priyanshu Barnwal