A Hand Gesture Controlled Vacuum Cleaning Robot

Abstract

This contribution describes the design and construction of a semi-autonomous
robot vacuum cleaner which can be controlled by hand gestures. The robot
vacuum cleaner is controlled with the use of a gesture control system consisting of
an Arduino Nano microcontroller for gesture recognition as well as control value
assignment and an Arduino UNO for coordination and navigation. The
microcontrollers are interfaced with a MPU6050 Accelerometer for gesture
detection and RF module for communication. The hand gesture control system is
designed to demonstrate how gesture-control can be utilized as a means of
navigation with respect to domestic robots as well as the simplification of humanmachine
interaction in domestic contexts.