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  • Article
  • Open Access
3,442 Views
22 Pages

Enhancing Drone Navigation and Control: Gesture-Based Piloting, Obstacle Avoidance, and 3D Trajectory Mapping

  • Ben Taylor,
  • Mathew Allen,
  • Preston Henson,
  • Xu Gao,
  • Haroon Malik and
  • Pingping Zhu

30 June 2025

Autonomous drone navigation presents challenges for users unfamiliar with manual flight controls, increasing the risk of collisions. This research addresses this issue by developing a multifunctional drone control system that integrates hand gesture...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,330 Views
17 Pages

24 January 2025

Unlike traditional remote control systems for controlling unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and drones, active research is being carried out in the domain of vision-based hand gesture recognition systems for drone control. However, contrary to static a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
12,037 Views
11 Pages

15 August 2024

Gesture recognition is crucial in computer vision-based applications, such as drone control, gaming, virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), and security, especially in human–computer interaction (HCI)-based systems. There are two types of gestu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
302 Views
27 Pages

Aerokinesis: An IoT-Based Vision-Driven Gesture Control System for Quadcopter Navigation Using Deep Learning and ROS2

  • Sergei Kondratev,
  • Yulia Dyrchenkova,
  • Georgiy Nikitin,
  • Leonid Voskov,
  • Vladimir Pikalov and
  • Victor Meshcheryakov

This paper presents Aerokinesis, an IoT-based software–hardware system for intuitive gesture-driven control of quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), developed within the Robot Operating System 2 (ROS2) framework. The proposed system addre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,397 Views
15 Pages

7 November 2024

Recent progress in hand gesture recognition has introduced several natural and intuitive approaches to drone control. However, effectively maneuvering drones in complex environments remains challenging. Drone movements are governed by four independen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,392 Views
11 Pages

8 August 2023

This paper experimentally analyzed the cognitive load of users based on different methods of operating hovering objects, such as drones. The traditional gamepad-type control method (2D) was compared with a control method that mapped the movement dire...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
17,177 Views
26 Pages

Drone Control in AR: An Intuitive System for Single-Handed Gesture Control, Drone Tracking, and Contextualized Camera Feed Visualization in Augmented Reality

  • Konstantinos Konstantoudakis,
  • Kyriaki Christaki,
  • Dimitrios Tsiakmakis,
  • Dimitrios Sainidis,
  • Georgios Albanis,
  • Anastasios Dimou and
  • Petros Daras

10 February 2022

Traditional drone handheld remote controllers, although well-established and widely used, are not a particularly intuitive control method. At the same time, drone pilots normally watch the drone video feed on a smartphone or another small screen atta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,595 Views
35 Pages

9 June 2023

Gesture recognition is a mechanism by which a system recognizes an expressive and purposeful action made by a user’s body. Hand-gesture recognition (HGR) is a staple piece of gesture-recognition literature and has been keenly researched over th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
493 Views
14 Pages

Human-Robot Interaction Based on Gaze Gestures for the Drone Teleoperation

  • Mingxin Yu,
  • Yingzi Lin,
  • Xiangzhou Wang,
  • David Schmidt and
  • Yu Wang
J. Eye Mov. Res.2014, 7(4), 1-14;https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.7.4.4 
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29 September 2014

Teleoperation has been widely used to perform tasks in dangerous and unreachable environments by replacing humans with controlled agents. The idea of human-robot interaction (HRI) is very important in teleoperation. Conventional HRI input devices inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
6,805 Views
17 Pages

Motion Estimation and Hand Gesture Recognition-Based Human–UAV Interaction Approach in Real Time

  • Minjeong Yoo,
  • Yuseung Na,
  • Hamin Song,
  • Gamin Kim,
  • Junseong Yun,
  • Sangho Kim,
  • Changjoo Moon and
  • Kichun Jo

25 March 2022

As an alternative to traditional remote controller, research on vision-based hand gesture recognition is being actively conducted in the field of interaction between human and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). However, vision-based gesture system has a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
11,728 Views
19 Pages

28 February 2023

We proposed a wearable drone controller with hand gesture recognition and vibrotactile feedback. The intended hand motions of the user are sensed by an inertial measurement unit (IMU) placed on the back of the hand, and the signals are analyzed and c...