A design of gesture controlled mobile robot with robotic arm for nuclear environment

Nuclear radiations in nuclear environment are result of fission and fusion chemical reactions of radioactive elements. Exposure to these radiations involves a possible risk to human health which can also be lethal. The nuclear power plants, especially the reactors are the places where such radiations are always present as the electricity generated therein is using the energy released from fission reactions of uranium and its isotopes. Human personnel are required inside the power plants to undertake certain tasks. They used to perform all the tasks earlier on their own but this being very risky and owing to certain mishaps that have taken place before, the concept of tele robotics came into being. In this paper, we have proposed a design of prototype based on gesture control which controls a robotic arm along with its base to move inside the reactor and perform certain tasks. One task which we have considered in the design is replacement of control rods. The gesture control is via the data glove and the transmission medium that we have considered is Wi-Fi using Wi-Fi module.