How to program Kinect Sensor using Python in Ubuntu Linux

Hi all

        This post is dedicated to Kinect Lovers .Kinect is a motion sensing input device by Microsoft for XBOX360 Game Console .The sensor consist of infrared camera and array of mic .We can use this sensor for Image processing  .I will show how to access data from Kinect Sensor .The platform is Linux and we can do programming in following Languages

• Python 
• C
• C++
• Actionscript
• C#
• Java
• JavaScript
• Common Lisp

I am choosing python ,because it is very easy to  program in python .

OpenKinect

OpenKinect is an open community of people interested in making use of the amazing Xbox Kinect hardware with our PCs and other devices. We are working on free, open source libraries that will enable the Kinect to be used with Windows, Linux, and Mac.

The OpenKinect community consists of over 2000 members contributing their time and code to the Project. Our members have joined this Project with the mission of creating the best possible suite of applications for the Kinect. OpenKinect is a true "open source" community!

Our primary focus is currently the libfreenect software. Code contributed to OpenKinect where possible is made available under an Apache20 or optional GPL2 license.

For more Information you can refer this Link

http://openkinect.org/wiki/Main_Page

Installation of OpenKinect

1)Download Source code is available here: https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect   

2)Extract the contents and take terminal in that path.

3)Type cmake .

4)make

5)sudo make install

6)Install python wrapper Its in the wrappers/python folder
https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect/tree/master/wrappers/python/

7)Type sudo python setup.py install

8)Done

Artificial Intelligence using Python

Hi all

              I like to share some methods to implement  Artificial Intelligence .This is the method i used in my project called  "Social Robot" . I used Python Programming language for implementing Artificial Intelligence . I will list out the steps ..

                       PyAIML is the module for handling AI, AIML stands for Artificial Intelligence Markup Language .
1)Download and Install Python 2.6 or 2.5

2)Download a python module called PyAIML . The link for download is given below
                           
                                                http://pyaiml.sourceforge.net/


3)We can install the python module by entering a command in terminal .
    sudo python setup.py install


Note that the terminal path is the path of module folder

4)Now the PyAIML installation is over .

5)Now we need some .aiml files for loading ..I used alice chatter bot files, which can be downloaded from the following link

                                 http://www.alicebot.org/downloads/sets.html

6)After downloading the aiml files, we can connect it into python using following tutorial link given below

                                       http://pyaiml.sourceforge.net/

7)You are Done

It can be used for some interesting projects like chatter robot ...