Hand Gesture to Control a Low Cost 3-D Printed Arm using Android Application

• Published in: Journal of Physics: Conference Series
• Main Author: Mohd Noor N.M.B.; Musrijan M.M.B.
• Format: Conference paper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing Ltd 2021
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85111962623&doi=10.1088%2f1742-6596%2f1962%2f1%2f012007&partnerID=40&md5=c4fc903e92d05d0658c2ab2e40f33e41

In this era, the technology on computer usage is highly increasing and demanding especially in engineering, business and communication sector. Many applications are built based on a smartphone technology. The idea of this paper is to develop a hand gesture system based on Android application in order to control the 3-D printed arm. A MIT application invertor was used in developing an algorithm of the hand gesture controller. The app inventor can be used and accessed with accelerometer sensor that already built-in the smartphone via a Bluetooth connection. The Android applications was used as a communication tool between the Arduino Uno and the 3-D printed arm. The accelerometer sensor was acted as an input signal to control the hand gesture of the 3-D printed arm by the change or tilt of smartphones position. The output of this system is a servo motor that was mounted on the arm and used to drive the fingers. In this project, there system was classified by two; hardware part that consists of 3D-printed arm, Arduino, electrical component, and smartphone, meanwhile, the software part consists of MIT application inverter. The result shows the 3-D printed arm was able to be implemented with the wireless and Android application. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.