Human-Robot Interaction Using Three-Dimensional Gestures

In the future of manufacturing industries, it is seen that the robots will replace most of the human workers to achieve faster production. All the industrial areas use automated robotic arms which do certain tasks assigned to them with amazing speeds and pinpoint accuracy. But areas such as medicine, space research, and military robotics require robot arms to be manually controlled to operate with objects that cannot be dealt with human hands. In order to achieve speed and accuracy like automated robots, a new approach, called the leap motion technology, a latest invention in human-computer interaction area is proposed. Hence, three-dimensional gestures are used and gesture recognition method using 3D pointing is schemed for interaction of human and robot using leap motion controller in real time. It facilitates the human pointing 3D gestures for the robot to understand in real time. The arm of robot captures the gestures shown by human partner to interact with the user's gestures and perform the task immediately. The position of the human's hand relative to the head is adjusted so that the speed of the robot is controlled. The status of the robot movement can be viewed in LCD. This proposal designs to advance a valuable 3D pointing gesture recognition system in real time for human-robot interaction.