Walking Backwards - The Difficulty
Overview e. Background After developing the process of the Kinect detecting if the user is simulating walking forward the next step is to make the robot walk backwards. Activity The difficulty of this was that because the Kinect detects the walking motion when a user walks on the spot and not physically moving forwards or back because they stay in one spot. This meant that the user would have to indicate if they wanted to move backwards. The first attempt was for the user to put hands backwards however during testing the user found this unconformable and hard to keep hands backwards. This was over come by the user having to raise hand above their head when walking. Another problem that was apparently when testing was due when walking on the spot the program detected the legs moving and started to walk forward regardless if the hand position. This lead to the code needing to be rearranged. The solution was to first detect if the legs are moving. Then detect where the hands
