Title :
Hand and finger registration for multi-touch joysticks on software-based operator control units
Author :
Micire, Mark ; McCann, Eric ; Desai, Munjal ; Tsui, Katherine M. ; Norton, Adam ; Yanco, Holly A.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA
Abstract :
Robot control typically requires many physical joysticks, buttons, and switches. Taking inspiration from video game controllers, we have created a Dynamically Resizing, Ergonomic, and Multi-touch (DREAM) controller to allow for the development of a software-based operator control unit (SoftOCU). The DREAM Controller is created wherever a person places his or her hand; thus we needed to develop an algorithm for accurate hand and finger registration. Tested with a set of 405 hands from 62 users, our algorithm correctly identified 97% of the hands.
Keywords :
image registration; interactive devices; robots; touch sensitive screens; DREAM controller; SoftOCU; dynamically resizing controller; ergonomic controller; finger registration; hand registration; multi-touch controller; multi-touch joysticks; robot control; software-based operator control units; video game controllers; Cameras; Detection algorithms; Ergonomics; Games; Indexes; Robots; Thumb; Robot teleoperation; finger registration; hand detection; multi-touch joystick;
Conference_Titel :
Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), 2011 IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Woburn, MA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-482-4
DOI :
10.1109/TEPRA.2011.5753487
