How does "manipulator" work?

Absrtact: Dismantling bombs is an unusually complex and dangerous task, if you have seen the Oscar award for the best film "bomb", it will be infected with the story in the film, the bomb experts in Baghdad must be careful, a little inattentive will pay

Dismantling bombs is an unusually complex and dangerous task, if you have seen the Oscar award for the best film "bomb", it will be infected with the story in the film, the bomb experts in Baghdad must be careful, a little inattentive will pay the cost of life. But now a company called Mirror Training has developed a set of related equipment that would make it safe and easy to dismantle the bombs.

The equipment includes a robotic arm, a Leap motion controller, and associated control procedures. The company's CEO, Liz Alessi, says it prefers to call the device "manipulator," which uses the Leap Motion controller to monitor the arm and finger movements of the bomb-picker, while the robotic arm moves accordingly. After a practical test, it was found that the method of manipulating the mechanical arm accuracy rate is twice times the traditional way.

How does the manipulator work?

When Leap motion controller receives the slight activity from the arm and the finger, the mechanical arm working in the front will make the corresponding action at the same time, although the movement of the mechanical arm will be some lag, but the whole operation process is still relatively smooth, simultaneously the accuracy is also high. At the same time, the device also equipped with a real-time camera for the front-working robotic arm, and the bomb-removal expert can view the working condition of the front robotic arm through the computer.

Prior to this, the XBOX 360 peripheral peripherals, Kinect, had also been tried on the bomb-removal mission, but the recognition of the motion details compared to leap Motion,kinect was not very high, which was completely unacceptable to the bomb.

In general, the body sense equipment is only limited in the entertainment, game and the interaction between people, but it is also more suitable for use in military, aerospace and other scientific research fields. The sense of body we see at the moment is just the first step of technology stretching out of the threshold, and the future will be more exciting.