Faculty Candidate Seminar – Ankit Chaudhary

When

April 6, 2015    
11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Where

3043 ECpE Building Addition
Coover Hall, Ames, Iowa, 50011

Ankit Chaudhary
Ankit Chaudhary

Title: Bent fingers’ angle calculation to control a robotic hand

Speaker: Ankit Chaudhary, Assistant Professor, Truman State University

Abstract: The shape of human hand is such that it can perform many tedious tasks easily. It can reach narrow places, can perform difficult operations and can bend its fingers at different angles to pick/hold different objects or apply force. It is very helpful in many difficult applications, however, there is risk of injury to the human hand, or even life in dangerous operations. It is not advisable to gamble of human body parts for operations like land mine removal. Hence, we need a robotic hand which can perform the same operation as a human hand does in real time. For this, a vision-based technique for controlling a robotic hand has been developed where robotic hand has human hand like joints in fingers. The user shows gestures with bare hand without any limitation on hand direction and the robotic hand would mimic that gesture. The positions of human hand fingers were calculated by geometrical analysis and also using supervised ANN. The preprocessing made the whole algorithm faster by cropping the region of interest from input image frame.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Ankit Chaudhary is Assistant Professor at Dept. of Computer Science, Truman State University, USA. He received his BS, MS and PhD, all in Computer Science & Engineering. His research interest includes Vision based applications, Intelligent Systems and Graphics. He has authored fifty research publications and one book. He is an Associate Editor for Computers and Electrical Engineering, an Elsevier Journal.

Dr. Chaudhary is on the Editorial Board of several International Journals and serves as Program Chair/TPC in many Conferences. He is also a reviewer for Journals, including IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, IET Image Processing, Machine Vision and Applications, ACM Trans. on Interactive Intelligent Systems, Signal Image and Video Processing, Expert Systems with Applications, Robotics and Autonomous Systems.

In past, Dr. Chaudhary has been associated with Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engg.−The University of Iowa, Dept. of Computer Science−Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani and was a Visiting faculty/researcher to many research labs. He has also worked with CITRIX R&D and AVAYA INC as System Programmer.

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