Hand gesture contolled:drone

Hand Gesture-Controlled Drone Simulation in Gazebo Ignition | ROS2-Humble & OpenCV 🔹 Overview: Demonstration of a simulated drone controlled using hand gestures in Gazebo Ignition with ROS2. 🔹 Tools Used: MediaPipe - real-time hand tracking OpenCV - image processing ROS2 - drone control and communication Gazebo Ignition - simulation

🔹 Control Gestures: ✊ Closed Fist → Hover ☝ 1 Finger → Move Up ✌ 2 Fingers → Move Forward 🤟 3 Fingers → Move Backward ✋ 5 Fingers → Move Down

OS: UBUNTU 22.04

ROS DISTRO: HUMBLE

Humble installation link::https://docs.ros.org/en/humble/Installation/Ubuntu-Install-Debians.html

Clone this repo in your ros2 work directory Then build the package in your workspace ,

        colcon build --symlink-install

ROBOT with 2 depth camera LAUNCHING COMMAND:

In terminal 1:

ros2 launch my_uavs ign_world_launch.py

Output:

In termihal 2:

ros2 run my_uavs hand_gesture_drone_controller.py 

The result: