Chapter 5. Teleoperate a Robot Using Hand Gestures
As you all know, robots can be controlled mainly in the following modes:
- Manual: In manual control, the robot is controlling manually by a human. The controlling is done using a remote controller or teach pendant.
- Semiautonomous: The semiautonomous robot will have both manual and autonomous control. For simple task, it can work autonomously but in complex task it may change its mode to manual.
- Fully autonomous: An autonomous robot has complete control over its action and can think for itself. It can learn and adapt, and very much everything is controlled by the robot itself.
We can choose the model of robot control based on our application. In this chapter, we are mainly discussing implementing a manual robot control; we can call it distance control or teleoperation. In teleoperation, the robot and human can be far apart, and the operator may not able to see the real robot moving but may get some visual feedback. Rather than manual...