Gesture Controlled Walking Robot

Project Description:

1. Accelerometer: An accelerometer is a device that measures proper acceleration. Proper acceleration, being the acceleration (or rate of change of velocity) of a body in its own instantaneous rest frame, is not the same as coordinate acceleration, being the acceleration in a fixed coordinate system. For example, an accelerometer at rest on the surface of the Earth will measure an acceleration due to Earth's gravity, straight upwards of g (9.81 m/s2). By contrast, accelerometers in free fall (falling toward the centre of the Earth at a rate of about 9.81 m/s2) will measure zero.
   • Capacitive
   • Piezoelectric
   • Piezoresistive
   • Hall Effect
   • Magnetoresisitive
   • Heat Transfer
   The accelerometer which you are going to use is a capacitive type 3-axis Accelerometer Sensor.It measures acceleration with in minimum full-scale range of ±3g.( but we use only two axis here)
2. Arduino Uno: The digital and analog input/output pins equipped in this board can be interfaced to various expansion boards and other circuits. Serial communication interface is a feature in this board, including USB which will be used to load the programs from computer.
3. Servo Motors: A servomotor is a closed-loop servomechanism that uses position feedback to control its motion and final position. The input to its control is a signal (either analogue or digital) representing the position
4. Motor Driver: Generally the Arduino board is not capable of providing required amount of current for running the motors. So we use a device called Motor Driver which will provide sufficient current for driving the motors.

Project Implementation:

1. Attach those Accelerometer to glove and wear the glove in such a way that when you move your wrist, the initial position of the accelerometer should change
2. Interface the Accelerometer and Servo motors with the Arduino board
3. Power the Robot and upload the code
4. Test the Walking Robot by moving your wrist

Software requirements:

1. Arduino IDE : You will be needing Arduino IDE software to write and upload the programming logic onto the Arduino Uno board

• Accelerometer
• Arduino Uno
• Servo Motor
• Motor Driver

• Gesture Recognition
• Gesture Interfacing
• Robot Walking Mechanism
• Robotics