Date of Publication :25th May 2021

Abstract: The emergence and outbreak of Novel Corona Virus has been really contagious, which is posing a severe threat to human beings. Most importantly occupational health risk is being faced more by doctors and healthcare workers who go about for direct exposure of patients during testing and hence are easily prone to get infected. Conventional robotic arm that use buttons and joysticks is not really very efficient and hence replacing this with gestures of human stands out as a better choice. This paper aims at Designing and Developing a preliminary prototype of a gesture controlled robotic arm model with Arduino Nano controller using servo motors and gloves with MPU6050 sensor and flex sensor. To provide an enhancement to the physician by sending the live video feed and so as to make the necessary hand gestures in order to meet the objectives and goal of the project and hence minimize the risk of contracting Corona Virus. This results in efficiency of 70 percent over conventional method in which gesture controlled robotic arms use buttons and joysticks. This robotic arm is capable of 4- axis degree of freedom, can grip objects up to 60mm and arm has a reach of 29cm. It can lift the payload upto to 155gms. Hence the prototype constructed is apt and is built according to the requirements. A gesture controlled robotic arm built using Arduino Nano will make the prototype cost efficient, safe and more feasible.

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