G.O.D Gesture Operated Drone
Group 3 - Anshul Devnani, Pranay Jay Patel, Bernardus Swets
A drone controlled solely by your hand gestrues
A drone controlled solely by your hand gestrues
We proposed a small indoor drone that was entirely driven with hand gestures. The project has a user-friendly webcam-based GUI, that communicates with the drone. The GUI’s main component is the webcam, along with other indicators showing the drone’s current status and useful live information. From the users end, the user will perform the desired hand gesture and the drone reacts accordingly. For example, the user can signal a thumbs up and the drone responds, within a reasonable response time, and increase its flying altitude. We have a set number of hand movements we incorporated. As the project is improved further, we can add functionality and push ourselves to create as many movements as possible. As a group of computer engineers, we have a fundamental understanding of the programming and electrical skills necessary for this project. We developed the flight controller ourselves and correctly applied the corrective features of a closed loop system. Furthermore, this project allowed us to work with and learn about popular technologies of the time, including Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Both are emerging industries and are growing rapidly. As this is a self-funded project and there were no sponsors, our goal was to make this project as low cost as possible. This ensured that the product can be supremely accessible to the public and can be improved upon moving past our first prototype.
Bernardus Swets
Bernardus Swets (CpE) is following the digital track and took on the task of researching the flight controls. He focused on looking into the different drone designs and corresponding hardware. He also looked into the flight control software. Having experience with linear control system, he researched what it would take to balance our drone using PID loops.
Pranay Jay Patel
Pranay Jay Patel (CpE) plans on working for a large tech company for a few years before going back to get his Master’s degree in Business Administration, with the intention to start his own company in the future.
Anshul Devnani
Anshul Devnani (CpE) has a passion for computer vision and is hoping to pursue a career in the field. As a computer engineer, he is currently working as intern at Leidos as a system integration engineer and previously work as a CWEP at Lockheed Martin for two years.