Design and manufacture of a drone controlled by a sensory glove

Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones with many variations have gradually appeared in life with many useful practical applications. Up to now, UAVs have been being controlled by peripheral devices such as controller, joystick, keyboard, mouse, etc. This paper presents the results of designing and manufacturing a drone trontrolled by a sensory glove with basic flight movements such as forward and backward, horizontal and vertical, up and down. The kinematics problem and 3D model of the drone are established in this study according to the standard of medium-sized drones with four rotors (quadcopter). The glove is sensorized with the two 6DOF IMU sensors connected to the main board STM32F103C8T6 to measure the flextion motions of the fingers to determine the flight direction in real time and transmit data via Lora wireless communication. The first version of the drone and the sensory glove has been successfully created and tested with the results showing the stability flight and tracking well the data from the glove.

Keywords: Unmanned aerial vehicles, Quadcopter, UAV, sensor glove.