Flex Sensors Controlled Animatronics Hand

Abstract

This paper focuses on understanding the simple and unique technique that is used for human robot interaction in robotic hand gesture replication system. The aims to fabricate a dual module system which synchronizes the real hand gesture with mechanical movement of the designed hand module at the output end in real time. The first part input module (IM) is user-controlled module which detects the real hand movement and convert it into signals and the signals are transmitted wirelessly to a receiver module comprising of a mechanical animatronics hand that will process the incoming signals and performs the mechanical movement in coherence with the received signal. Arduino boards integrated with their own microcontrollers and Xbee antennas are used to control both the input and output modules for the completion of the perform gesture. The input module comprises of a glove integrated with flex sensors and the Arduino board. 3D structure which is modeled as the real hand with the servo motors installed on it is used as an output module for the replication of the generated gesture from input module. This paper describes that advantages of Flex Sensors Controlled Animatronics Hand are in the environment which obstructs the physical approach of the humans and is not feasible for the human body. Nuclear power plants or nuclear weapon production areas, sophisticated chemical or pharmaceutical factories, bomb disposal department and Firefighting agencies etc. In all of these scenarios, Personal control is essential yet environment restricts the physical presence of human, therefore, this technique can be used as an alternative to automation so that an individual can operate under such conditions without physically being present at the location, preventing any unforeseen accidents and human casualties.