OmniRace: 6自由度ハンドポーズ推定による直感的なレーシングドローン操作
OmniRace: 6D Hand Pose Estimation for Intuitive Guidance of Racing Drone
6自由度の手のポーズ推定とジェスチャー認識により、高速レーシングドローンを直感的に低レベル制御するシステムを提案し、シミュレーションで従来より25.1%速い完走を実現した。
著者: Valerii Serpiva, Aleksey Fedoseev, Sausar Karaf, Ali Alridha Abdulkarim, Dzmitry Tsetserukou
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
This paper presents the OmniRace approach to controlling a racing drone with 6-degree of freedom (DoF) hand pose estimation and gesture recognition. To our knowledge, it is the first-ever technology that allows for low-level control of high-speed drones using gestures. OmniRace employs a gesture interface based on computer vision and a deep neural network to estimate a 6-DoF hand pose. The advanced machine learning algorithm robustly interprets human gestures, allowing users to control drone motion intuitively. Real-time control of a racing drone demonstrates the effectiveness of the system, validating its potential to revolutionize drone racing and other applications. Experimental results conducted in the Gazebo simulation environment revealed that OmniRace allows the users to complite the UAV race track significantly (by 25.1%) faster and to decrease the length of the test drone path (from 102.9 to 83.7 m). Users preferred the gesture interface for attractiveness (1.57 UEQ score), hedonic quality (1.56 UEQ score), and lower perceived temporal demand (32.0 score in NASA-TLX), while noting the high efficiency (0.75 UEQ score) and low physical demand (19.0 score in NASA-TLX) of the baseline remote controller. The deep neural network attains an average accuracy of 99.75% when applied to both normalized datasets and raw datasets. OmniRace can potentially change the way humans interact with and navigate racing drones in dynamic and complex environments. The source code is available at https://github.com/SerValera/OmniRace.git.
