ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Teleoperate a Robot Using Hand Gestures

As you all know, robots can be controlled mainly in the following modes:

• Manual: In manual control, the robot is controlling manually by a human. The controlling is done using a remote controller or teach pendant.
• Semiautonomous: The semiautonomous robot will have both manual and autonomous control. For simple task, it can work autonomously but in complex task it may change its mode to manual.
• Fully autonomous: An autonomous robot has complete control over its action and can think for itself. It can learn and adapt, and very much everything is controlled by the robot itself.

We can choose the model of robot control based on our application. In this chapter, we are mainly discussing implementing a ...