Design Overview

The current proposed design will utilize an Arduino board and software to code the sensors and communicate with the robot. The board and sensors will be mounted on a wearable device in the form of a gauntlet-like wearable, with various sensors allowing for direct and intuitive command. Depending on the movement of the user’s arm or hand (such as a left-swipe over a sensor or lifting one’s arm in 1-to-1 mode), a corresponding instruction will be sent to the robot via Bluetooth. The robot subject in this project will be the NAO robot from Aldebaran robotics. The NAO robot will be programmed through software such as Choregraphe as well as supplementary code in Python and Arduino.

Project diagram