Preemptive Attention Control of Roomba by using Kinect

Mr. Akihiro Nakamura, Mr. Chihiro Obayashi, and Dr. Tom Shibata from Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan developed a preemptive attention controller for Roomba.

In this application, the detection of human 3D position and posture was achieved by OpenNI, which is an wonderful API for the Kinect. The position and posture of the Roomba was estimated by ARToolkit with two markers.