The magic glove: a gesture-based remote controller for intelligent mobile robots

Chaomin Luo; Yue Chen; Mohan Krishnan; Mark Paulik

doi:10.1117/12.912186

23 January 2012 The magic glove: a gesture-based remote controller for intelligent mobile robots

Chaomin Luo, Yue Chen, Mohan Krishnan, Mark Paulik

Proceedings Volume 8301, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXIX: Algorithms and Techniques; 83010M (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912186
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2012, Burlingame, California, United States

Abstract

This paper describes the design of a gesture-based Human Robot Interface (HRI) for an autonomous mobile robot entered in the 2010 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC). While the robot is meant to operate autonomously in the various Challenges of the competition, an HRI is useful in moving the robot to the starting position and after run termination. In this paper, a user-friendly gesture-based embedded system called the Magic Glove is developed for remote control of a robot. The system consists of a microcontroller and sensors that is worn by the operator as a glove and is capable of recognizing hand signals. These are then transmitted through wireless communication to the robot. The design of the Magic Glove included contributions on two fronts: hardware configuration and algorithm development. A triple axis accelerometer used to detect hand orientation passes the information to a microcontroller, which interprets the corresponding vehicle control command. A Bluetooth device interfaced to the microcontroller then transmits the information to the vehicle, which acts accordingly. The user-friendly Magic Glove was successfully demonstrated first in a Player/Stage simulation environment. The gesture-based functionality was then also successfully verified on an actual robot and demonstrated to judges at the 2010 IGVC.

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Chaomin Luo, Yue Chen, Mohan Krishnan, and Mark Paulik "The magic glove: a gesture-based remote controller for intelligent mobile robots", Proc. SPIE 8301, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXIX: Algorithms and Techniques, 83010M (23 January 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912186

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