Integrating iRobot-Arduino-Kinect Systems: An Educational Voice and Keyboard Operated Wireless Mobile Robot

Abstract

This paper presents use of iRobot Create Programmable Robot for real time wireless controlling via speech and keyboard commands in a domestic environment. Commercial hardware such as iRobot create 2 programmable robot, Kinect V2, Arduino Uno and NRF24L01 radio frequency module were used, based on open-source code in the implementation. At the receiver end iRobot programmable robot was used as the mobile robot. At the transmission end, a PC based system was used. The keyboard controlling system is designed to control the directions of the moving robot. In the voice controlling unit, voice commands were recognized using the inbuilt speech recognition engine of the Kinect sensor. We provide comprehensive analysis of the performance of the developed robot system in an indoor environment. The results show that 89% of accuracy for untrained non-native (Sri Lankan) English speakers in British accent.