Novel Mobile Tool Cart with Application into Factory Environment

This paper presents a novel application of a perception sensor Leap Motion to a mobile tool cart (MTC). Daily-used instructions are exercised as commands to control the MTC in the factory environment by using finger/hand position detection of the Leap Motion. A type of differential-driven mobile cart with a tool basket which is mounted on the top of the mobile cart comprise the mobile tool cart. The commercialized Leap Motion sensor is employed to detect hand/finger gestures of the worker. In the same WiFi environment, the worker uses Leap Motion sensor which is equipped on the operation platform to give different remote commands, for example, Go Forward, Draw Back, Turn Left, Turn Right, Start/Stop, Acceleration and Deceleration to the MTC. We define a set of trajectory determined by the hand/finger commend of the worker to do the reflexes and the experiment result shows the validity of proposed method.