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Vision is an essential part of attitude control for many flying animals, some of which have no dedicated sense of gravity. Flying robots, on the other hand, typically depend heavily on accelerometers and gyroscopes for attitude…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Jesse J. Hagenaars , Stein Stroobants , Sander M. Bohte , Guido C. H. E. De Croon

We propose a novel human-drone interaction paradigm where a user directly interacts with a drone to light-paint predefined patterns or letters through hand gestures. The user wears a glove which is equipped with an IMU sensor to draw…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Roman Ibrahimov , Nikolay Zherdev , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

Hand gesture detection is a well-explored area in computer vision with applications in various forms of Human-Computer Interactions. In this work, we propose a technique for simultaneous hand gesture classification, handedness detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Sichao Li , Sean Banerjee , Natasha Kholgade Banerjee , Soumyabrata Dey

AcoustoBots are mobile acoustophoretic robots capable of delivering mid-air haptics, directional audio, and acoustic levitation, but existing implementations rely on scripted commands and lack an intuitive interface for real-time human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Alex Lin , Lei Gao , Narsimlu Kemsaram , Sriram Subramanian

Interacting with data visualizations without an instrument or touch surface is typically characterized by the use of mid-air hand gestures. While mid-air expressions can be quite intuitive for interacting with digital content at a distance,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zona Kostic , Catherine Dumas , Sarah Pratt , Johanna Beyer

We address the problem of assigning a team of drones to autonomously capture a set desired shots of a dynamic target in the presence of obstacles. We present a two-stage planning pipeline that generates offline an assignment of drone to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Aaron Ray , Alyssa Pierson , Hai Zhu , Javier Alonso-Mora , Daniela Rus

Due to the universal non-verbal natural communication approach that allows for effective communication between humans, gesture recognition technology has been steadily developing over the previous few decades. Many different strategies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Finlay McKinnon , David Ada Adama , Pedro Machado , Isibor Kennedy Ihianle

Drone application for aerial manipulation is tested in such areas as industrial maintenance, supporting the rescuers in emergencies, and e-commerce. Most of such applications require teleoperation. The operator receives visual feedback from…

DroneStick is a novel hands-free method for smooth interaction between a human and a robotic system via one of its agents, without training and any additional handheld or wearable device or infrastructure. A flying joystick (DroneStick),…

Hand gesture recognition has been granted as one of the emerging fields in research today providing a natural way of communication between man and a machine. Gestures are some forms of body motions which a person expresses when doing a work…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-27 Biswarup Ganguly , Amit Konar

Quadrotor drones equipped with high quality cameras have rapidely raised as novel, cheap and stable devices for filmmakers. While professional drone pilots can create aesthetically pleasing videos in short time, the smooth -- and…

We present an advance in wearable technology: a mobile-optimized, real-time, ultra-low-power event camera system that enables natural hand gesture control for smart glasses, dramatically improving user experience. While hand gesture…

Automated hand gesture recognition has been a focus of the AI community for decades. Traditionally, work in this domain revolved largely around scenarios assuming the availability of the flow of images of the user hands. This has partly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Ying Liu , Liucheng Guo , Valeri A. Makarov , Yuxiang Huang , Alexander Gorban , Evgeny Mirkes , Ivan Y. Tyukin

Dynamic hand gestures play a pivotal role in assistive human-robot interaction (HRI), facilitating intuitive, non-verbal communication, particularly for individuals with mobility constraints or those operating robots remotely. Current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Eran Bamani Beeri , Eden Nissinman , Avishai Sintov

The ability to converse with humans and follow natural language commands is crucial for intelligent unmanned aerial vehicles (a.k.a. drones). It can relieve people's burden of holding a controller all the time, allow multitasking, and make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Yue Fan , Winson Chen , Tongzhou Jiang , Chun Zhou , Yi Zhang , Xin Eric Wang

Automatic detection of flying drones is a key issue where its presence, especially if unauthorized, can create risky situations or compromise security. Here, we design and evaluate a multi-sensor drone detection system. In conjunction with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Fredrik Svanström , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Cristofer Englund

The autonomous formation flight of fixed-wing drones is hard when the coordination requires the actuation over their speeds since they are critically bounded and aircraft are mostly designed to fly at a nominal airspeed. This paper proposes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yang Xu , Jesús Bautista , José Hinojosa , Héctor García de Marina

Current motion capture (MoCap) systems generally require markers and multiple calibrated cameras, which can be used only in constrained environments. In this work we introduce a drone-based system for 3D human MoCap. The system only needs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Xiaowei Zhou , Sikang Liu , Georgios Pavlakos , Vijay Kumar , Kostas Daniilidis

This Paper deals with robotic arm embed controller system, with distributed system based on protocol communication between one server supporting multiple points and mobile applications trough sockets .The proposed system utilizes hand with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Luiz Cortinhas , Patrick Monteiro , Amir Zahlan , Gabriel Vianna , Marcio Moscoso

The recent advancement in technology breaks the barriers to communication between users and computers. The communication between humans and computers includes emotion and gesture recognition. Emotions can be recognized on the face of humans…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Heena , Sandeep Ranjan