ARMatron — A wearable gesture recognition glove: For control of robotic devices in disaster management and human Rehabilitation

In this paper we present the design and development of a hand-motion recognition system as an interface between human and mechatronic systems such as UAVs and other rescue robots. The interface device, named as ARMatron, will be capable of identifying the gestures made by the user and convert them to suitable signals to activate the target gadgets. Suitable sensors on the ARMatron will sense the linear and rotary motions of the hand. A data acquisition system (DAQ) will acquire the data from the sensors and will be processed by a suitable controller to identify the intended gesture of the user. This will be converted to suitable control signals in the controller and will be used as the command signals to activate the gadget. The proposed system is expected to enable easy interfacing of human with mechanical/mechatronic systems and provide new dimension to man-machine interface systems, radically changing the search and rescue scenario, and also help rehabilitating physically handicapped victims.