Robot Glove

A project to use the P5Glove to control a Lynxmotion Robot Arm.

Description

The code is written in 100% Java. The P5Glove interface is provided by Carl Kenners P5 Absolute Mode dll that is available on the p5glove group on Yahoo. The Lynxmotion Robot Arm is controlled via the RS232 interface with the Java comm library. This allows theoretically "portable" code across Windows and Linux. The arm uses a Mini SSC Serial Servo Controller.

Bending the fingers opens and closes the gripper. The yaw axis controls the base rotation. Pitch controls the wrist. The Z-axis controls the shoulder at the base and the Y-axis controls the elbow.

The Code

Here is the source code written in Java for the original beta version of Kenners CP5DLL.

Updated 05/19/2007 - RobotGlove.java Version 2 has been updated to work with the Beta version 3 of Kenners CP5DLL. There is a beta 3.1 version of CP5DLL on yahoogroups, but I was unable to make it work. It was also modified to work with RXTX since Sun left everyone high and dry on javax.

Other Sources

P5 Yahoo Group

There is a great new P5 Glove resource from Dr Andrew Davison. He wrote a chapter dedicated to the P5 Glove in his book titled Killer Game Programming in Java and Pro Java 6 3D Game Development. The chapter even mentions this project on page 4.