Dispositivo apuntador mediante visión artificial, adecuado para usuarios de computador con discapacidad motora en miembros superiores

Abstract

Seeking to contribute to the process of social inclusion and independence of people with motor disability in their upper limbs, which also retain mobility of the head muscles, a pointing device was developed that Position the cursor on the computer screen according to the movement of the user's head, using Artificial Vision techniques. The selection actions, such as the right and left clicks, are performed by the blinking of each eye. A) Yes same, a training and con guration routine is accessed through the opening Of the mouth. The development was done using a hardware / software platform of use which is responsible for capturing the images, processing them, analyzing them, interpreting them and send the data to the computer. The device is attached to the computer using a pressure-grip system and connects like any other HID peripheral per USB port.