3D Printed Robotic Arm using Hand Gestures

Abstract

The domain of robotics is vast and allows a wide range of scope for improvements and new technologies to come. Taking into consideration the available lot of tasks, to perform without manual intervention this paper summarizes about a robotic arm using hand gestures. After a comprehensive study carried out regarding the existing models the proposed model was designed. Robotic arm is designed using 3D printing. The hand robot is controlled by sensor gloves that can read the finger movements and the compressive power of the user’s fingers. The flex sensor is a sensor that has a function to detect curvature. Flex sensors change resistance on bending. The steps involved in this research are choosing a 3D printed hand model, putting the robot arm’s mechanical and electronic parts together, creating software, testing the robot arm, connecting it with sensors, and putting teleoperations into practice. The completed robotic hand successfully mimicked the movements of the controlling glove with minimal to no apparent lag.