Although the Robot Operating System (ROS) has provided roboticists with easy and efficient tools to teleoperate or command robots with both hardware and software compatibility on the ROS framework, however, there is a need to provide an alternative approach to encourage a non-robotic expert to interact with a robot. The human hand-gesture approach does not only enables the robot users to teleoperate the robot by demonstration but also enhances user-friendly interaction between robots and humans.

In the context of this thesis, the application of human hand gestures is proposed to teleoperate our mobile robot using embedded computers and inertial measurement sensors. First, we will teleoperate the robot on the ROS platform and then via hand gestures, leveraging on the framework developed by [1] and [2].