Visual detection of objects in a robotic work area using hand gestures

A system for rapidly developing industrial robotic applications with visual hand gestures and voice commands is being developed. This paper reports on the hand gesture recognition component of the system which has been designed and implemented in C# using OpenCV. Seventy two test subjects interacted with the hand gesture component of the system and the empirical results of these experiments are reported. Screenshots of the hand gesture component are presented as well as known system limitations.