Motion Glove
[Thesis, personal project developed at Berge Consulting AB]
The Aim
Motion Glove was my thesis project. I wanted to blend my education experience with something I wanted to work with in the future. That’s where the Motion Glove came to my mind, a mix of hardware construction and software development.
End result would be a self constructed glove with sensors sending data to a application built with Unreal Engine. With this app I could transfer the data to vectors and show a visual representation of my hand.
The Solution
Hardware solution was a Arduino Nano, five flexable sensors one on each finger and a gyroscope. All of these components was soldered on a self made circuitboard. The arduino was programmed so that it sent data from the sensors in a rate of 10Hz.
First idea of circuitboard layout
This idea was a good base for a prototype, so I went with this build but everything on the same card.
Software solution for the hardware was developed in Arduions own IDE. With this program I sent data from the finger sensors and the gyroscope to my application in Unreal Engine.
The application in Unreal Engine recived that data ande parsed it into a string. This information I then transfered to vectors that I used to set the Rotation of my fingers bones. And the video at the top was the final test and result.