He received his Ph.D. degree in the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His educational background is in manufacturing with an emphasis on mechatronics. In addition to his many years of industrial experience, he has taught many different engineering and technology courses at undergraduate and graduate levels. His tremendous research experience in manufacturing includes environmentally conscious manufacturing, Internet based robotics, and Web based quality. In the past years, he has been involved in sustainable manufacturing for maximizing energy and material recovery while minimizing environmental impact.Toshika Fegade, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) I am a fine young lady in the field of robotics, machine learning, and computer vision. Currently, I am a graduate student at Drexel University, majoring in systems (Electrical Engineering) and a minor in Computer Science. I am working as a Research Assistant in the Engineering Technology department at Drexel. I am currently working on improving ways of improving engineering education with Virtual Reality techniques. I am working with Advisor to create two upcoming courses at Drexel -Advanced Robotics course and Virtual Reality course. Persevering and hard-working are the best adjectives to describe me. I wish to work in the interdisciplinary field of robotics with mechanical, medical and electrical. I have hands-on experience with the number of medium to large-scale projects and work opportunities such as "Gesture controlled semi-humanoid robot", "Creating an outfit using fashion images using machine learning", "Car detection with SVM and HOG", "Convolutional Neural Network for retinal vessel segmentation using Keras library with TensorFlow backend on python and OpenCV on Ubuntu environment to obtain segmentation", "Design of pick and place model", etc. That research was published in the IEEE. I am looking for exciting work or research opportunities in my interested areas. When I am not working or studying, I like to explore with the telescope, read books, write on my blog and practice some dance routine.

A Robotics is a field concerned with the "intelligent connection of perception of action". The most common manufacturing robot is the robotic arm with different degree of freedoms. Today, these humanoids perform many functions to assist humans in different undertakings such as space missions, driving and monitoring high speed vehicles. They are called Humanoids because they resemble humans. The idea of this paper is to change perception of controlling robotic arm. This paper provides a way to get rid of old fashioned remote controls and gives an intuitive technique for implementation of Semi-Humanoid Gesture controlled robot. The motion sensor used are -flex and accelerometer (used in mobile phones for tilting motion). It includes two robotic arms which are exactly similar to human arms (with 5 fingers), increasing sensitivity of the system, a moving platform and a camera for capturing real time video. The prime aim of the system is "to design a proposed system in such a way that user can operate the robot with the ease through gestures". This involves movement of both robotic arms & platform in synchronous with user"s hand & leg gestures respectively.

<p>Robotics is a field concerned with the “intelligent connection of perception of action”. The most common manufacturing robot is the robotic arm with different degree of freedoms. Today, these humanoids perform many functions to assist humans in different undertakings such as space missions, driving and monitoring high speed vehicles. They are called semi-humanoids because they resemble to upper part of human body.</p><p>        The idea of this paper is to change perception of controlling robotic arm. This paper provides a way to get rid of old fashioned remote controls and gives an intuitive technique for implementation of Semi-Humanoid Gesture controlled robot. It includes two robot arms which are exactly similar to human arm (5 fingers) increasing sensitivity of the system. It includes motion sensors -flex and accelerometer (used in mobile phones for tilting motion). The system design is divided into 3 parts namely: Robotic Arm, Real time video and Platform.</p>        The prime aim of the design is that the robot arm and platform starts the movement as soon as the operator makes hand and leg gesture. The Robotic arm is synchronized with the gestures (hand postures) of the operator and the platform part is controlled by the leg gestures of the operator.  The robot and the Gesture device are connected wireless via RF. The wireless communication enables user to interact with the robot in an effortless way.