A human-machine interface with unmanned aerial vehicles

Abstract

Many UAV applications rely on a ground-based computers to accomplish all processing tasks and the power consumed by such systems are a major roadblock when it comes to portability. Since one of the main goals of this interface is to be ubiquitous, we moved all computational load to a mobile device running Android. On this paper we present an efficient and practical human-machine interface with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The UAV can respond to both, the movement and body gestures of the user.