Remote control of a robotic platform based on hand gesture recognition

Abstract

Computer vision based detection can be used to identify hand gestures and movement and use these commands in order to implement a control system for a robotic platform. This paper presents the technical implementation of a hand movement and gesture detection system based on two VGA USB cameras and the control of a customizable robotic platform using the commands transmitted from a computer after image processing. Hand gestures are identified using an adaptive binarization method based on histogram analysis and hand contour with peak value detection for identifying the fingertips.