Human-robot Interface based on Stretchable sensors

Since their conception, robots have been created to help human beings in their work and daily tasks, gradually becoming an important part of the technological society. Today, robots are involved in many areas of people's lives, collaborating with them in their daily lives (housework, services, medicine, sports, and transport). Any sector has a place for these mechanized companions. But everything is going one step further. In this effort to bring the robot closer to the human model, collaborative robots play a decisive role. Within the different expressions of human-robot collaboration, the one that allows a better symbiosis between the person and the machine will gain more strength. Therefore, in this research project a human-robot interface will be designed based on flexible capacitive sensors which will reproduce, through a 5 DOFs robotic arm, OpenManipulator-X, the sequence of movements performed by a human arm. Oriented for cooperative applications in the field of surgery and medicine, this interface will be developed under the umbrella of ROS, using an OpenCR1.0 microcontroller board and supported by simulations in various graphic and motion interfaces such as Gazebo, MoveIT or MATLAB. All this will make up an attractive and complete project that will take the reader into the exciting and fascinating world of collaborative robotics