Controlling a robot arm using exoskeleton for land-mines disposal

Robotics, Virtual Reality, Exoskeleton and Human Machine Interface are fields of growing interest and applications every day. Robotic systems have enormous potential to reduce human exposure to dangerous situations and/or increase human presence in remote locations. Most of industrial robots are usually controlled by a computer or micro controllers to perform systematic sequence of actions stored in its memory. Navigation of autonomous robots involves following trajectories generated by automatic motion planners. For non-autonomous systems, the robot´s trajectories are provided by the operator, either trajectories that are pre-set or fed in an on-line fashion, such as teleoperation. Teleoperation is widely used for the direct control of non-autonomous robots from a remote location. The objective of this paper is to facilitate the controlling process by using human-machine interface techniques instead of predefined limited actions in its memory; this is done in order to be able to control the robot arm remotely to discover the World Wide II mines that are still in the western desert of Egypt.