Designing an Interactive Glove with a Robotic ARM for Virtual Reality Education Applications

In this study, it is aimed to transfer some manual operations and processes to the VR with the help of a wearable VR glove and glasses. In this context, the hand and joint movements while performing the relevant operations and processes were transferred to the VR environment and outputs were produced showing that the user handled the relevant devices, applied force and in return, the completion performance of the operation. While it provides ease of use by being lighter than its previously designed counterparts, it was ensured that the objects in the virtual environment were given to the user's hand by means of a robot arm, and instead of copying the feeling, the feeling of realistic touching and holding was experienced. The performance of two separate prototypes developed with IMU sensors and flex sensors was compared and the functions they were advantageous in were combined to provide hand and finger movement diversity. To increase the sense of reality, the robot arm was able to hold an object in the hand and the interaction diversity was increased by using the force sensor.