Sensor based human arm motion and gesture replication system using MATLAB

This paper proposes a system that replicates the motion of the arm of a human user into a virtual Arm model in Simulink. It employs a hardware sensor array that reads the movement of the arm about the elbow joint, and the fingers of a human and transfers these data to a MATLAB-Simulink model that converts these sensor data into replicating motion of a virtual arm model developed using Solidworks. The system includes a feature that can find the Bode plot response and the State Space model of the user's arm which can be used to design customized system control for different users. Additionally, the signals generated in the Simulink model that drives the virtual arm can be used to study the arm motion of the user and it can also be sent to hardware devices like robotic arms for accurate motion and gesture replication or smart devices for gesture and motion based functionality control.