Gesture Recognition on a Mobile Robot

		Stefan Waldherr 

    Gestures are an essential part of communication --- not only in 
    human interaction but increasingly in human-robot interaction. I 
    will give a short overview what other people have done in this 
    field and explain in what way my system differs. The system
    roughly consists of three parts. Find and track a person. Identify
    the person's arm-position over time and try to identify a sequence
    of arm-positions as a gesture. 
    Since I haven't implemented the complete system yet, I would like to
    use this opportunity to brainstorm about parts of the system, which 
    are not finished.