Quadcopter Control System Based on Body Gesture Using Microsoft Kinect
Burhan Izzudin and Surya Dharma

Dept of Physics, The University of Indonesia

Abstract

Evolution of human-machine interaction has started a few decades ago. Human-Machine user interface has been developed to be an easy tool to use. Begins from Command Line Interface (CLI) to Graphical User Interface (GUI) and latest, the Natural User Interface (NUI). This research reports a control system for quadcopter based on body gesture using motion sensor, kinect. Kinect is a device which contains camera and infrared projector that be able to detect human^s body movement and convert it to a cartesian coordinates as a spacial data. Kinect detects the body gesture movement that has been designed before. Design of Quadcopter control system is including seven basic movement and a series of flying movement task command. Each command has a specific gesture which set as an input motion command. The specific gesture has its own parameter. When the parameter is qualified, a fly command will be sent to the quadcopter, and the quadcopter will receive it as a control input. This research reports the success rate of the seven basic movement varied from 80,77% to 96,00%.

Keywords: Body Gesture, Kinect, Quadcopter Control System

Topic: Instrumentation, Acoustics, and Signal Processing