Abstract: Service robots directly interact with people, so finding a more natural and easy user interface is of fundamental importance. While earlier works have focused primarily on issues such as manipulation and navigation in the environment, few robotic systems are used with user friendly interfaces that possess the ability to control the robot by natural means. To facilitate a feasible solution to this requirement, we have implemented a system through which the user can give commands to a wireless robot using gestures. Through this method, the user can control or navigate the robot by using gestures of his/her palm, thereby interacting with the robotic system. The command signals are generated from these gestures using image processing. These signals are then passed to the robot to navigate it in the specified directions.

Harish Kumar Kaura, Vipul Honrao, Sayali Patil and Pravish Shetty, “Gesture Controlled Robot using Image Processing ” International Journal of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence(IJARAI), 2(5), 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJARAI.2013.020511

@article{Kaura2013,
title = {Gesture Controlled Robot using Image Processing },
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence},
doi = {10.14569/IJARAI.2013.020511},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJARAI.2013.020511},
year = {2013},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {2},
number = {5},
author = {Harish Kumar Kaura and Vipul Honrao and Sayali Patil and Pravish Shetty}
}