Phantom Hand - Glove-Controlled Animatronic Hand

Phantom Hand Components

Type: MECH 423 (Mechatronic Product Design) Project

Year: 2012

Teammates: Iftikhar Azam

Key Skills: C#; Arduino; Solidworks; Prototyping

Additional Information: Demonstration Video

Objectives:

• To create a robotic hand that mimics the movement of the user’s fingers in real-time using uses a glove as the control interface. In addition, the system plays a corresponding sound note based on the finger moved.

Summary:
Worked on all aspects of the project together with my teammate.

• Generated the concept of the design and the approach.
• Assembled the control glove by sewing flex sensors onto a regular glove.
• Constructed the mechanical hand using recycled prototype materials as the structure and straws and strings as the fingers.
• Mounted the five servo motors to the mechanical hand structure as the drive system.
• Programmed the Arduino micro-controller to receive, process, and output various signals.
• Constructed and assembled circuitry to connect all the components.
• Programmed a C# application that communicates with the micro-controller and plays the corresponding sound note when the signal is detected.

Design Schematic