Design and Implementation of a Hand Movement Controlled Robotic Vehicle with Wireless Live Streaming Feature

Abstract

This paper illustrates the design and implementation of a robotic vehicle that can be controlled from all directions by using the hand movement with a wireless camera that is installed at the top of the vehicle to broadcast wireless live streaming to the user end. Therefore, it removes the hassle of gesture recognition and image processing technique or even the use of switches or joysticks to control the movement of a robot in different directions and provides a wireless surveillance facility to the user. There are mainly three parts of this propose system; the transmitter, the receiver and the live streaming section. The transmitter section detects the movement of the hand in x and y axis by using an accelerometer sensor, processed by Arduino Uno, and transmits those signals to the receiver section by using RF module. The receiver section receives those signals via RF module, decoded by the Arduino Uno, and the motor driver, which is connected to the Arduino Uno and moves the robotic vehicle in all directions according to the decoded signals. Finally, in order to perform live streaming operation - a common network (Wi-Fi), a laptop, Raspberry pi, and two software, namely Virtual Network Computing (VNC) and Foundation Internet Nouvelle Generation (FING) are used to ensure the surveillance feature for the user.