Gesture-Based Controllers to Guide a Quadrotor Using Kinect Sensor

Abstract

This paper presents an intuitive way to control the position of a quad rotor, through a human-machine interface (HMI), based on a motion sensor, which uses the movements of the body to command the mobile platform (in such case, an aerial vehicle). The experimental results were obtained by using the Microsoft Kinect Sensor (for detection and tracking of the user), and after acquiring the data, the control commands are sent to the quad rotor ArDrone Parrot to guide it.