Object Detection and Gesture Control of Four-Wheel Mobile Robot

Abstract

In this paper, the development of a four wheel mobile robot with gesture-controlled robot arm manipulator system is presented. The accelerometer and wifi based gesture control model is used to manipulate the motion of its arm with human hand. The glove data is used to control the movement of the robot arm for pick and place operation. The object detection algorithm is also implemented to detect the object autonomously. An ultrasonic sensor is used to detect the upcoming object. Under this work, only single object is considered. The prototype model of four-wheel mobile robot with two movable arms is developed. The proposed object detection algorithm is implemented on the physical model to check the effectiveness of the algorithm. After object detection operation, the gesture control based controller is used for pick and place activity. The novelty of this research is collaborative use of object detection algorithm and gesture control scheme.