Gesture Controlled Drone

Published on 20 May 2022. Written by Baskaran K

Gesture recognition technology helps you to communicate or control any other devices via your hand gestures. From this technology, you can control the drone simply by moving your hands.

Now you can control your drone by doing the gesture where you don't need to have the transmitter in your hand for a flying drone. An accelerometer will be fixed over on the hand that will detect the movement of the body, then it sends the signal to the microcontroller. That signal will be sent to the drone with the help of telemetry.

Project Description:

FRAME Frame size is optional
MICROCONTROLLER:Arduino board
SENSOR: MPU6050: Arduino 6 Axis Accelerometer
BLUETOOTH MODULE: HC-05 Bluetooth module
FLIGHT CONTROLLER: Autopilot (APM, PIXHAWK)
GPS MODULE: This module will help you to follow the waypoint which was pre-programmed in the software.
POWER MODULE: Power module is used to power the flight controller.Nothing but the voltage regulator
TELEMETRY:vFor dual communication
ESC:vElectronic Speed Controller used for controlling the speed of the BLDC motor
MOTOR: BLDC motor.
PROPELLOR: Its a device a which converts the rotational motion into the thrust
BATTERY: You can use lipo battery as a power source
TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER: 2.4GHZ TX and RX can be used. It should have a minimum of 5 channel
POWER DISTRIBUTION BOARD: It will distribute the battery voltage into all the escs equally.

Project Implementation:

Fix all the parts in the frame properly
Connect the Accelerometer sensor to the Arduino board. Make mobile to communicate to the arduino board. Connect the ground telemetry to the mobile through which you can send the signal to the air telemetry.
Now the signal created by your hand gestures is received, that signal is being sent to the drone through telemetry. Now you can able to control the drone by the hand gestures.
Connect the battery to the power module. Do the calibration with help of mission planner.
Install the stable firmware to the flight controller board
Setup the flight mode that you want to fly in your transmitter in the radio calibration setup
Do autotune for the more stability where you don't need to give PID values manually
Now the drone is ready for flying

Software requirements:

Mission planner or Q-Ground control or Tower.
You will be needing Arduino IDE software to write and upload the programming logic onto the Arduino Uno board

Programming language: Arduino Programming (C++)

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