Gesture control system for mobile robots
Marc Dupont, Pierre-François Marteau · 2015
Current robotics advances offer consequent potential for assistance, not only for individuals, but also for professionals operating on the ground, such as firemen or military. However, such operators must stay focused on their mission; hence they expect a non-invasive, intuitive control system, disrupting them as least as possible. Furthermore, the inherent mobility arising from such missions (walking, running, jumping) must not be an obstacle to gesture recognition. Here, we present a glove-based gesture detection algorithm, whose learning phase is instantaneous among a large span of possible gestures. It has been evaluated on a seven-word dictionary dedicated for the purpose of robot control, with satisfying recognition results.