Gesture Control Method for Oral Blood Mixed Liquid Removal Robot*

All of oral surgeries are accompanied by bleeding. Manual removal of blood is carried out by a nurse and dozens of repetitive blood suction operations are implemented by the nurse during a single oral surgery. In our previous work, a robot for removal of blood-water mixed liquid is designed. However, the robot requires an initial order to autonomous removal of blood mixed liquid. In this paper, a hand gesture control method for typical operations of the robot is developed. Gesture dataset are developed at first and a deep learning neural network is trained for detection of hand gesture. The gesture control procedures for four typical operations are provided in detail. In a group of experiments, it’s demonstrated that an oral surgeon controls the robot’s motion by presenting prescribed hand gesture. The proposed method could be an alternative manner for blood mixed liquid removal.