Image Processing Technique for the Gesture Controlled Robot

Abstract

Now these days gesture controlled robots operates with humans next to them. Whereas, this project deals with combination of robots through gesture controlled phenomenon but distance away from the user. This can be dealed through image processing technique.The command signals are developed from these gestures using image processing. These signals are then passed to the robot to operate it in the specified direction. This project presents a novel algorithm to recognize a set of static hand gestures for the HumanComputer Interaction (HCI) and controlling a robotic car wirelessly after successful recognition using X-Bee module. Through this method, the user can control or navigate the robot by using gestures of his/her palm. 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. In short we have implemented a system through which the user can give commands to a wireless robot using gestures. The application for gesture recognition has been created on MATLAB environment with operating system as windows 7. The system has been tested and verified under both incandescent and fluorescent lighting conditions. The experimental results are very encouraging as the system produces real-time responses and highly accurate recognition towards various gestures.
Keywords: Gesture controlled technique; image processing technique; navigate in specific direction; operates with humans.