Some interactive control modes for planar cable-driven robots

Abstract

This paper presents the design and the implementation of a multimodal operator interface dedicated for planar cable-based robots. Three interactive robot control modes which have been implemented are namely point and click based control, gesture-based control and voice based control. Point and click based control enables robot control by simply clicking on features appearing on images of the robot workspace. Gestural-based control enables robot control by means of human operator gestures. Voice based control enables robot control by means of natural speech. Successful experiments have been tested on a homemade planar cable-driven robot. The availability and the combination of these three modes improve greatly the capability of the global system.

Citation

Zaatri, A. and Bouchemal, B. (2013), "Some interactive control modes for planar cable-driven robots", World Journal of Engineering, Vol. 10 No. 5, pp. 485-490. https://doi.org/10.1260/1708-5284.10.5.485