Published July 28, 2018

The Motion Mobile: Gesture-Controlled Car

Have you ever wanted to be able to control a car with your hand? Introducing the Motion Mobile!

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The Motion Mobile: Gesture-Controlled Car

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Arduino UNO

Arduino Nano R3

Adafruit 433mhz rf transmitter and receiver

Adafuit Motor shield

GY-521 MPU-6050 3 Axis Gyroscope + Accelerometer Module For Arduino

Ultrasonic Sensor - HC-SR04 (Generic)

Hand tools and fabrication machines

Adafruit car chassis

Story

The goal of the project was to make an RC car that can controlled with hand gestures using a face tracking camera.

The hand gestures are recognized by a set of code. The brain of the robot is an Arduino Uno. The gestures are recognized by an accelerometer.

This robot was designed to recognize five hand gestures. Forward, backward, left, right and stop. The accelerometer is a three-axis acceleration-measuring device. It has three axis (X, Y, and Z).

The equipment I used was an Arduino UNO, DC motors, two Arduino Nanos, an ultrasonic sensor, a servo motor, an LCD with I2C, and a glove.

The robot is divided into two parts, transmitter and receiver. The receiver circuit is the same as the one in the RC car project, and there is a small change in the transmitter circuit. In the transmitter circuit is where I program the transmitter circuit to send hand gestures as commands. I will be using Arduino as the programming platform to use hand gestures with an accelerometer sensor. I also used a servo motor and attached two ultrasonic sensors to each sensor to detect obstacles.

Code

#include <VirtualWire.h> //VirtualWire library declaration
#include <AFMotor.h>
byte msg[VW_MAX_MESSAGE_LEN];//Data flow is received
byte msgLen = VW_MAX_MESSAGE_LEN;
char forward[1] = {1};

AF_DCMotor motor1(1, MOTOR12_1KHZ);
AF_DCMotor motor2(2, MOTOR12_1KHZ);
AF_DCMotor motor3(3, MOTOR34_1KHZ);
AF_DCMotor motor4(4, MOTOR34_1KHZ);

void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(9600);
  Serial.println("READY..........");
  vw_setup(2048); // set the baud rate
  vw_set_rx_pin(2);// Set up digital pins to receive signals
  vw_rx_start();// started receiving the signal
}


void loop()
{
  if (vw_get_message(msg, &msgLen)) // if the signal is transmitted
  {
    Serial.print("got transmition");
    motor1.setSpeed(255);
    motor2.setSpeed(255);
    motor3.setSpeed(255);
    motor4.setSpeed(255);
    switch (msg[0])
    {
      case '0':
        {
          motor1.run(RELEASE);
          motor2.run(RELEASE);
          motor3.run(RELEASE);
          motor4.run(RELEASE);
          break;
        }

      case '1':
        {
          motor1.run(FORWARD);
          motor2.run(FORWARD);
          motor3.run(FORWARD);
          motor4.run(FORWARD);
          break;
        }

      case '2':
        {
          motor1.setSpeed(150);
          motor2.setSpeed(150);
          motor3.setSpeed(150);
          motor4.setSpeed(150);
          motor1.run(FORWARD);
          motor2.run(FORWARD);
          motor3.run(BACKWARD);
          motor4.run(BACKWARD);
          break;
        }

      case '3':
        {
          motor1.setSpeed(150);
          motor2.setSpeed(150);
          motor3.setSpeed(150);
          motor4.setSpeed(150);
          motor1.run(BACKWARD);
          motor2.run(BACKWARD);
          motor3.run(FORWARD);
          motor4.run(FORWARD);
          break;
        }

      case '4':
        {
          motor1.run(BACKWARD);
          motor2.run(BACKWARD);
          motor3.run(BACKWARD);
          motor4.run(BACKWARD);
          break;
        }

      case '5':
        {
          motor3.setSpeed(70);
          motor4.setSpeed(70);
          motor1.run(FORWARD);
          motor2.run(FORWARD);
          motor3.run(FORWARD);
          motor4.run(FORWARD);
          break;
        }

      case '6':
        {
          motor1.setSpeed(70);
          motor2.setSpeed(70);
          motor1.run(FORWARD);
          motor2.run(FORWARD);
          motor3.run(FORWARD);
          motor4.run(FORWARD);
          break;
        }
    }



}

#include <VirtualWire.h> // VirtualWire library declaration
#include "I2Cdev.h"
#include "MPU6050.h"

#if I2CDEV_IMPLEMENTATION == I2CDEV_ARDUINO_WIRE
#include "Wire.h"
#endif
MPU6050 accelgyro;
int16_t ax, ay, az;//used for making programs cross platform
int16_t gx, gy, gz;//used for making programs cross platform
//#define OUTPUT_READABLE_ACCELGYRO
#define OUTPUT_BINARY_ACCELGYRO
#define LED_PIN 13
bool blinkState = false;
char text[5] = "";// array array declaration
byte i = 0;

void setup()
{
#if I2CDEV_IMPLEMENTATION == I2CDEV_ARDUINO_WIRE//communicacate between devices
  Wire.begin();
#elif I2CDEV_IMPLEMENTATION == I2CDEV_BUILTIN_FASTWIRE
  Fastwire::setup(400, true);
#endif
  Serial.begin(9600);// Serial communication with baudrate 9600
  accelgyro.initialize();
  Serial.println(accelgyro.testConnection() ? "MPU6050 connection successful" : "MPU6050 connection failed");
  Serial.println("Ready.........");
  vw_set_ptt_inverted(true);// Requirements for RF link modules
  vw_setup(2048);// set the baud rate
  vw_set_tx_pin(8);// Set up digital pins to signal
  pinMode(LED_PIN, OUTPUT);

}

void loop()
{
  accelgyro.getMotion6(&ax, &ay, &az, &gx, &gy, &gz);
#ifdef OUTPUT_READABLE_ACCELGYRO
  // display tab-separated accel/gyro x/y/z values
  Serial.print("a/g:\t");
  Serial.print(ax); Serial.print("\t");
  Serial.print(ay); Serial.print("\t");
  Serial.print(az); Serial.print("\t");
  Serial.print(gx); Serial.print("\t");
  Serial.print(gy); Serial.print("\t");   //-32000
  Serial.println(gz);
  //delay(250);
#endif

#ifdef OUTPUT_BINARY_ACCELGYRO
  /*  Serial.write((uint8_t)(ax >> 8)); Serial.write((uint8_t)(ax & 0xFF));
    Serial.write((uint8_t)(ay >> 8)); Serial.write((uint8_t)(ay & 0xFF));
    Serial.write((uint8_t)(az >> 8)); Serial.write((uint8_t)(az & 0xFF));
    Serial.write((uint8_t)(gx >> 8)); Serial.write((uint8_t)(gx & 0xFF));
    Serial.write((uint8_t)(gy >> 8)); Serial.write((uint8_t)(gy & 0xFF));
    Serial.write((uint8_t)(gz >> 8)); Serial.write((uint8_t)(gz & 0xFF)); */
#endif


  if ((ay < 9000) and (ay > -9000) and (ax < 12000) and (ax > -3000))
  {
    Serial.println("Ready.........");
    text[i] = '0';
    vw_send((byte *)text, sizeof(text));// send the signal away
    vw_wait_tx();

  }

  if (ax < -3800)
  {
    if (ay < -13000)
    {
      Serial.println("to the right");
      text[i] = '5'; // to the right
      vw_send((byte *)text, sizeof(text));// send the signal away
      vw_wait_tx();
    }
    else if (ay > 8000)
    {
      Serial.println("to the left");
      text[i] = '6'; // to the left
      vw_send((byte *)text, sizeof(text));// send the signal away
      vw_wait_tx();
    }
    else
    {
      Serial.println("to the left"); 
      text[i] = '1'; //tới
      vw_send((byte *)text, sizeof(text));// send the signal away
      vw_wait_tx();
    }
  }

  if (ay < -13000)
  {
    if (ax < -3800)
    {
      Serial.println("to the right");
      text[i] = '5'; // to the right
      vw_send((byte *)text, sizeof(text));// send the signal away
      vw_wait_tx();
    }
    else
    {
      Serial.println("to the right");
      text[i] = '2'; // right
      vw_send((byte *)text, sizeof(text));// send the signal away
      vw_wait_tx();
    }
  }

  if (ay > 7000)
  {
    if (ax < -3800)
    {
      Serial.println("to the left");
      text[i] = '6'; // to the left
      vw_send((byte *)text, sizeof(text));// send the signal away
      vw_wait_tx();
    }
    else
    {
      Serial.println("to the left");
      text[i] = '3'; //  to the left
      vw_send((byte *)text, sizeof(text));// send the signal away
      vw_wait_tx();
    }
  }

  if (ax > 14000)
  {
    text[i] = '4'; //backward
    vw_send((byte *)text, sizeof(text));// send the signal away
    vw_wait_tx();
  }



  blinkState = !blinkState;
  digitalWrite(LED_PIN, blinkState);

}

Credits

mcharrison500

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Ambitious 4th year student of BEng (Hons) Software & Electronic Engineering at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT).

The Motion Mobile: Gesture-Controlled Car

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Hand tools and fabrication machines

Story

Schematics

Transmitter glove

receiver (RC Car)

RC car Flowchart

Code

receiver (RC Car)

RCtransmitter (glove)

Credits

mcharrison500

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The Motion Mobile: Gesture-Controlled Car

The Motion Mobile: Gesture-Controlled Car

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Hand tools and fabrication machines

Story

Schematics

Transmitter glove

receiver (RC Car)

RC car Flowchart

Code

receiver (RC Car)

RCtransmitter (glove)

Credits

mcharrison500

Comments

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