A robotic hand-arm teleoperation system using human arm/hand with a novel data glove

Data glove is one of the most commonly used techniques in the robotic teleoperation systems. In this paper, we propose a robotic hand-arm teleoperation system with a novel data glove called YoBu, which can acquire human motions from both the arm and the hand simultaneously. The proposed data glove is designed to be stable, compact and portable. It is composed of eighteen low-cost inertial and magnetic measurement units, among which fifteen units are attached to the human operator's finger joints for robotic hand teleoperation and three units are attached to the palm, upper arm and forearm respectively for robotic arm teleoperation. In the robotic hand-arm teleoperation system, the operating commands generated by the data glove are transmitted to the robot via a Bluetooth wireless communication, which makes the whole robotic teleoperation system simple and user friendly. Finally, several experiments are implemented to verify the efficiency of the proposed robotic teleoperation system.