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Prospects of Implementing a Vhand Glove as a Robotic Controller
Prospects of Implementing a Vhand Glove as a Robotic Controller
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Chidi, Christopher
Howard, Ayanna M.
Howard, Ayanna M.
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Abstract
There are numerous approaches and systems for implementing a robot controller. This project investigates
the potential of using the VHand Motion Capturing Glove, developed by DGTech, as a means of controlling a
programmable robot. A GUI-based application was utilized to identify and subsequently reflect the extended or
closed state of each finger on the glove hand. A calibration algorithm was implemented on the existing application
source code in order to increase the precision of the recognition of extended or closed finger positions as well as
enhance the efficiency of the hand signal interpretation. Furthermore, manipulations were made to the scan rate
and sample size of the bit signal coming from the glove to improve the accuracy of recognizing dynamic hand
signals or defined signals containing sequential finger positions. An attempt was made to sync the VHand glove
signals to a Scribbler robot by writing the recognized hand signals to a text file which were simultaneously read
by a Python-based application. The Python application subsequently transmitted commands to the Scribbler
robot via a Bluetooth serial link. However, there was difficulty in achieving real-time communication between
the VHand glove and the Scribbler robot, most likely due to unidentified runtime errors in the VHand signal
interpretation code.
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Office of Student Media; Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program; Georgia Tech Library.
Date Issued
2011
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