Gesture Controlled Drone Using a Gyroscopic Sensor Mounted on a Glove

We present our implementation of using a motion controller to control the motion of a drone via simple human hand gestures. This can be achieved by building a transmitter and receiver, different from traditional ones, which can be used to easily control a drone. For the implementation of the motion controller, we have used a 2.4GHz Tran receiver and an Arduino Uno. The basic problem with the traditional transmitters/controllers use a multitude of switches, levers, and joysticks to control a drone. The Trans receiver recognizes the hand gestures and relays them onto the ground station. In our implementation, we have written Arduino programming codes to interpret the hand gestures captured by the Trans receiver, and transmit them to control the motion of the drone via these gestures the same gyroscopic glove in the prototype project will be used to control the drone. The BT module is swapped out for a 2.4 GHz Tran receiver for better range, lower latency, and higher bandwidth. The glove sends out a PPM signal to the receiver connected to the drone. The signal consists of values derived from the MPU6050 Gyroscope, which is then converted to a type recognized by the drone, which in this case being the PPM Signal. The Drone is fitted with a flight controller. A Drone Flight Controller (FC), is the heart of a quadcopter and controls most onboard electrical components with the assistance of an Arduino-like microprocessor and an array of sensors. The FC is outfitted with a gyroscope and an accelerometer to calculate its angular velocity and speed and make the optimum calculations required to keep the drone flying. The FC is mounted on the drone and is connected to 4 equally spaced out coreless DC motors responsible for the flight. The Drone is also outfitted with the same 2.4 GHz receiver that receives input from our gyroscopic glove and sends it to the flight controller, which uses that data for its flight. According to the tilt and the acceleration of the glove, the Trans receiver sends appropriate data to the drone for it to change it is at altitude or tilt and move around