Abstract: Present day scenario is tending towards the elimination of Human Interface device to Computers and other devices. Gaming systems are going towards complete elimination of controllers and moving towards use of cameras and Ultrasound sensors to detect the movements of gamers, which act as inputs rather than the signals sent by controllers. Similar systems have also been used to help the blind and the Paralympic people. This proposed system helps do the same. It translates the gestures and movement of the wrist and fingers to control the mouse of a computer or to interface the same to any device granting wireless control to devices based only on these movements. This can be applied to control wheelchairs for the disabled or a robotic arm for bomb diffusion. The main advantage of this project is that it uses sensors to track all the movements of an arm thereby giving the user freedom to be anywhere within the wireless range to control the system, unlike in systems based on camera to recognize the movements which restrict the user to face the camera at a particular angle. The system currently proposed in the paper is for mouse control and the extent of expansion is limited only by the hardware interfaced to the receiver end.
Keywords: generic systems, Gesture Control, keyboard, mouse, sensors
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