Real time iris based robot

Disability of movement has huge impact on the life of physically disabled people. Therefore there is need to develop a robot which can be controlled using iris movement. Presently iris controlled robotic systems exist in which iris movement detection is done using MATLAB. This paper proposes a system which aims to design a robot controlled by iris movement. The system is designed using Raspberry Pi and Pi Camera Module which make the system cost effective and stand alone. An Open Source Computer Vision is integrated on Raspberry Pi for real time image processing. A general purpose higher-level language, Python is used for programming the Raspberry Pi. The main aim of the system is to recognize iris from an image of eye and find the centroid of the iris. The centroid position is further used to operate the robot in various directions.