Abstract
The arrival of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to the consumer market has been changing the way we interact with our surroundings. Fields like cinema and photography are improving with the possibility of reaching unsafe areas, as much as industry related companies that can now supervise their infrastructures safely. Besides many other professional areas, this fever also got into sports and UAV racing became a new way to compete. There are limited alternatives to control a UAV, each one with its pros and cons. The most reliable is the conventional handheld controller, a bulky equipment that requires practice and dexterity to be a good pilot. Consequently, technologically illiterate individuals, users with low dexterity or hand malformations and elders are departed from this game breaking technology, either for professional or recreational purposes. To expand the control of UAV to more member of our society, a different control equipment should be developed. In this paper we propose a solution based in two lightweight hand worn devices sensitive to motion changes. These changes are used to detect modifications in the orientation of the device, which are then transmitted through Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to a mobile app that is responsible for their interpretation as simple input or input patterns. The result of this interpretation should be used as flight commands to control a UAV. Through simple and intuitive hand movements, users can accurately pilot a quadcopter. This alternative presents a new and easier approach to control UAV that decreases the time that is required to learn how to use it, with the outcomes of an accentuated learning curve. The results obtained with the usability tests performed with users with different capacities of interaction, confirmed the viability of this solution, as much as its simplicity and intuition in the control.
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This work was supported by the project SAICT-POL/24048/2016 – NIE - Natural Interfaces with the Elderly, with reference NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-024048, financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) through the Northern Regional Operational Program (NORTE2020).
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Ribeiro, R., Safadinho, D., Ramos, J., Rodrigues, N., Reis, A., Pereira, A. (2019). Gesture Based Alternative to Control Recreational UAV. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST'19 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 931. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16184-2_4
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