Robotic gesture recognition system

A robotic gesture recognition system to enable control of robotic devices by a human user using gestures can be recognized by the system comprising:

• a robotic unit, with one or more electric motors or actuators,
• a video camera affixed to the robotic unit, said video camera of recording in pixel, format, panning, tilting and zooming;
• a computer including a high level control computer for implementing a high level of control and communicating with said video camera for enabling recognition of dynamic gestures and static poses of a user in pixel space via video imagery recorded by the video camera;
• said high level control computer in communication with said video camera and operating to store and a high level of control gesture recognition application code to transform said dynamic gestures and static poses a-user's recognized gesture or movement in pixel space to waveform data, and generating user commands therefrom, said high level control computer including decision-making rules implemented by comparison of said waveform data to a set of thresholds and forces one of the decision rules to be implemented;
• said computer also including a low level control computer implementing a low level of control and communicating with the robotic unit, said low level control computer storing and running a low level of control gesture recognition application code to transform the user commands received from the high level of control voltage commands;
• wherein said robotic unit is in communication with the low level control computer, said robotic unit capable of receiving and responding to the control voltage commands received from e low level control computer.