Accelerometer Based Hand Gesture Controlled Robot

In many application of controlling robotic gadget it becomes quite hard and complicated when there comes the part of controlling it with remote or many different switches.

Mostly in military application, industrial robotics, construction vehicles in civil side, medical application for surgery. In this field it is quite complicated to control the robot or particular machine with remote or switches, sometime the operator may get confused in the switches and button itself, so a new concept is introduced to control the machine with the movement of hand which will simultaneously control the movement of robot.

Fig. 1: Prototype of Accelerometer based Hand Gesture controlled Robotic Car

Fig. 2: Prototype of Hand Gesture Sensor Module

Fig. 3: Prototype of Hand Mount

Fig. 4: Image of Front Side of Chassy

Fig. 5: Image of Top View of Chassy

Description

A Gesture Controlled robot is a kind of robot which can be controlled by  your hand gestures not by old buttons.You just need to wear a small transmitting device in your hand which included an acceleration meter.This will transmit an appropriate command to the robot so that it can do whatever we want. The transmitting device included a  ADC for analog to digital conversion and an encoder IC(HT12E) which is use to encode the four bit data and then it will transmit by an RF Transmitter module.

At the receiving end an RF Receiver module receive’s the encoded data and decode it by and decoder IC(HT12D). This data is then  processed by a microcontroller  and finally our motor driver to control the motor’s.  Now its time to break the task in different module’s to make the task easy and simple any project become easy  or error free if it is done in different modules.It is assumed that the reader have knowledge of How start with AVR and How to start with 8051. As our project is already divided into two different part transmitter and receiver. We will discuss both of them one by one.

Accelerometer

An Accelerometer is a kind of sensor which gives an analog data while moving in X,Y,Z direction or may be X,Y direction only depend’s on the type of the sensor.

Fig. 6: Typical Image of ADXL335 Accelerometer Module

Here is a small image of an Accelerometer shown. We can see in the image that their are some arrow showing if we tilt these sensor’s in that direction then the data at that corresponding pin will change in the analog form.

The Accelerometer having 6 pin-

1- VDD- We will give the +5volt to this pin

2- GND- We simply connect this pin to the ground for biasing.

3- X- On this pin we will receive the analog data for x direction movement.

4- Y- On this pin we will receive the analog data for y direction movement.

5- Z-  On this pin we will receive the analog data for z direction movement.

6- ST- this pin is use to set the sensitivity of the accelerometer 1.5g/2g/3g/4g.

Block Diagrams & PCB Design

Transmitter Block diagram

Fig. 7: Block Diagram of Hand Gesture Sensor Transmitter Module for Robo

Receiver Block Diagram

Fig. 8: Block Diagram of Receiver Module for Robot

PCB DESIGN

Fig. 9: PCB Layout of Hand Gesture Sensor Transmitter Module for Robot

Components and costing

Above are the standard price

Note : The costing may vary according to region / area

Application

1.       Military application to control robotics

2.       Medical application for surgery purpose.

3.       Construction application.

4.       Industrial application for trolly control, lift control, etc.

Project Source Code

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#include <mega8.h>
#include <delay.h>
#define ADC_VREF_TYPE 0xE0 // Read the 8 most significant bits
                          // of the AD conversion result
unsigned char read_adc(unsigned char adc_input)
{
ADMUX=adc_input | (ADC_VREF_TYPE & 0xff);
// Delay needed for the stabilization of the ADC input voltage
delay_us(10);
            // Start the AD conversion
ADCSRA|=0x40;
// Wait for the AD conversion to complete
while ((ADCSRA & 0x10)==0);
ADCSRA|=0x10;
return ADCH;
}
void main(void)
{
unsigned int x,y,z;
PORTB=0x00;
DDRB=0xFF;
PORTC=0x00;
DDRC=0x00;
PORTD=0x00;
DDRD=0xFF;
TCCR0=0x00;
TCNT0=0x00;
TCCR1A=0x00;
TCCR1B=0x00;
TCNT1H=0x00;
TCNT1L=0x00;
ICR1H=0x00;
ICR1L=0x00;
OCR1AH=0x00;
OCR1AL=0x00;
OCR1BH=0x00;
OCR1BL=0x00;
ASSR=0x00;
TCCR2=0x00;
TCNT2=0x00;
OCR2=0x00;f
MCUCR=0x00;
TIMSK=0x00;
UCSRB=0x00;
ACSR=0x80;
SFIOR=0x00;
ADMUX=ADC_VREF_TYPE & 0xff;
ADCSRA=0x83;
SPCR=0x00;
TWCR=0x00;
while (1)
      {
      // Place your code here
      x=read_adc(3);
      y=read_adc(4);
      z=read_adc(5);   
        PORTB=x;                                                
//---------------------------------------------------------------// X AXIS      
//---------------------------------------------------------------     if(x>0xab)
      {
      PORTD=0x0c;        
      }   
            else if(x<0x9b)
      {
      PORTD=0x03;
      }
//-------------------------------------------------------------- // Y AXIS
//------------------------------------------------------------------
    else if(y>0xab)
      {
      PORTD=0x08;        
      }   
            else if(y<0x9b)
      {
      PORTD=0x0e;
      }      
//--------------------------------------------------------------
//---------------------------------------------------------------

       else
      PORTD=0xff; 
      }
}







//Receiver main program



#include<reg51.h>
void main()
{
P2=0xff;
P1=0x00;
while(1)
{
if(P2==0x80)
{
P1=0xaa;
}
else if(P2==0xe0)
{
P1=0x55;
}
else if(P2==0x30)
{
P1=0xa5;
}
else if(P2==0xC0)
{
P1=0x5a;
}
else
P1=0x00;
}
}



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Circuit Diagrams

PCB-Layout-Hand-Gesture-Sensor-Transmitter-Module-Robot
PCB-Layout-Receiver-Module-Robot

Project Video

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Filed Under: Electronic Projects
Tagged With: accelerometer, atmega 8, avr, robot
 

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