Gesture Based Human Robot Interaction System Using Raspberry Pi

Abstract

Even after more than decades of input devices development, many people still find the interaction with the computers and robots an uncomfortable experience. Efforts should be made to adapt computers and robots to our natural means of communication: speech and body language. The aim of our project is to implement a real time command system through hand gesture recognition, using general purpose hardware and low costing sensor like a simple Raspberry-pie and an USB webcam, so any user can make use of it in industries or at home. The basis of our approach is a fast segmentation process to obtain the hand gesture from the whole image which is able to deal with large number of hand shapes against different backgrounds and lightening conditions, and a recognition process that identifies the hand posture for different control application.