%I Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. %A M.N.B.Z. Abidin %A S.S.A. Ali %A S.H. Adil %T 3-degree-of-freedom real-time human hand following robot arm using visual feedback %R 10.1109/ICET.2015.7389202 %D 2016 %L scholars7239 %J Proceedings of 2015 International Conference on Emerging Technologies, ICET 2015 %O cited By 3; Conference of 11th International Conference on Emerging Technologies, ICET 2015 ; Conference Date: 19 December 2015 Through 20 December 2015; Conference Code:119270 %X This paper presents a simple approach to mimic human motion. The objective of this research is to mimic the human motions using visual feedback and convert it into robotic motion. A 3 degree-of-freedom robotic arm is developed that utilizes visual feedback capturing the human hand motion. The motion of the robotic arm is governed by converting the workspace configuration into configuration space using inverse kinematics. The proposed approach is applied to freehand drawing and is implemented in real-time. The real-time human hand following robot arm shows that it can be used for environments endangered for humans effectively. © 2015 IEEE. %K Degrees of freedom (mechanics); Inverse kinematics; Robotic arms; Robotics, 3 degrees of freedom; 3-Degree-of-freedom; Configuration space; Free-hand drawing; Human following; Human hand motions; Simple approach; Visual feedback, Visual communication