Development And Research Of Robot Control System Based On Data Glove

As a rapid developing and an important high technical field these years, Robot, by showing itself and its development, has totally transformed the traditional industry production. The main idea of this article is: enabling operators to directly control the robot hands via operating data glove, by using serial port communication technique and synchronous technology, based on robot hands, data glove and RS-232 serial line. Most traditional robot hand control software control robot's movement by sending commands to the certain computer by operator, which is very complicated control method and not intuitional, operators have to be trained aforehand and there is a high requirement for them. The method discussed here is: operators can ware the data glove, which is connected to certain computer, to control the robot directly, and a virtual scenario operating will generated on the computer. The operation is simple, intuitional, and need no training for operator aforehand, and also, with low requirement for operator, who can easily realize real-time and accurate control of robot. First, a compare of the advantage and disadvantage of the application of ActiveX Component and the Windows API Communication Function is conducted in this article, MSComm of the Windows API Communication Function has been chosen for the developing of the robot hand serial port communication software and the control protocol of robot hand in this subject has been designed by the data rules discovered by large amount of experiments and synthesizing the common rules of communication protocol. Second, there will be an integration of the data glove and the robot controlling software, synthetically using synchronization technique to realize the real-time and accurate control of the robot hand by the data glove. After that, Object Oriented technique has been applied to this paper and to improve the expanding ability of robot control software. Finally, based on the original model developed by the theory discussed above, and with testing, analyzing and improvement of the original model , the anticipative goal had been reached.