Real-time Gesture Imitation in a Soft-arm Control Robot

In this thesis a system is developed whereby ISAC, a soft-arm control humanoid robot, can observe, track, and imitate hand motions made by a human being. This is accomplished by making use of the OpenCV libraries for Haar object detection and pre-trained Haar classifiers to detect the humans face an...

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Main Author: Thornton, Sean R
Other Authors: Dr. Richard Alan Peters II
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: VANDERBILT 2009
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Online Access:http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-03252009-143826/