HCI for Real world Applications

Abstract

Human-computer interaction (HCI) is necessary for different real world applications. Swarm robotics is an emerging technology in the real world. This paper presents navigation of swarm robot through hand gestures. The interaction of Human-robot is needed for controlling the swarm robots. The communication between multiple robots possible through sending messages. For sending messages Bluetooth technology can be used. Our goal is to make swarm robot to work effectively based on the gesture given. Background noise and dynamic environments are the key issues in the gesture recognition process. The background objects will affect the system performance and accuracy. Hand tracking along with feature extraction is used in this paper to dealing these issues. The robot used is the foot-bot robot developed in swarmanoid projects. Webcam is used as visual interface. Collaboration of robot with human has great importance in the field of service robotics.