Gesture Control Robotic Arm Using Flex Sensor

Waseem Afzal; Shamas Iqbal; Zanib Tahira; Mehtab Ejaz Qureshi

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Gesture Control Robotic Arm Using Flex Sensor

Waseem Afzal, Shamas Iqbal, Zanib Tahira, Mehtab Ejaz Qureshi

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The design and implementation of a gesture control robotic arm using flex sensor is proposed. The robotic arm is designed in such a way that it consists of four movable fingers, each with three linkages, an opposing thumb, a rotating wrist and an elbow. The robotic arm is made to imitate the human hand movements using a hand glove. The hand glove consists 5 flex sensor for controlling the finger movements and an Accelerometer for the wrist and elbow movements. The actuators used for the robotic arm are servo motors. The finger movements are controlled using cables that act like the tendons of human arm. The robotic arm is controlled from a distant location using a wireless module. A prototype of the robotic arm was constructed and tested for various hand movements.

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DOI	10.11648/j.acm.20170604.12
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Robotic Arm, Flex Sensor, Wireless Module, Accelerometer

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Waseem Afzal

Department of Electrical Engineering, Comsat Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
Shamas Iqbal

Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Zanib Tahira

Department of Electrical Engineering, Comsat Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
Mehtab Ejaz Qureshi

Department of Electrical Engineering, Comsat Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan

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Waseem Afzal, Shamas Iqbal, Zanib Tahira, Mehtab Ejaz Qureshi. Gesture Control Robotic Arm Using Flex Sensor. Appl Comput Math. 2017;6(4):171-176. doi: 10.11648/j.acm.20170604.12

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