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IOT OPERATED WHEEL CHAIR

Mr. ABHISHEK P V, Mr. MANJUNATHA H G, Mr. SUDARSHAN P B,
Mr. VARUN REDDY K P
B.E Scholars
School Of Electronics and Communication Engineering,
Cambridge Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India.

Mr. GIRISH H
Associate professor
School Of Electronics and Communication Engineering,
Cambridge Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India.

ABSTRACT perform their daily routine. The physically challenged people,

who use a normal wheelchair for navigation, usually require
Here is implemented a home navigation system, an external person to move around. In this busy world, the
which comprises of a wheelchair which works on the elderly people may be left alone at home and also may not
inputs such as gesture commands via an android phone find an apt person for external help. Here comes the need of an
through Bluetooth and navigates according to command. automated home navigation system, which consists of a
It can be used by an elderly or physically challenged wheelchair which can be used by the elderly and the
person to move inside the home without any difficulty. It is physically challenged people without the help of an external
also equipped with obstacle avoidance technique, where person.
the person may not be able to provide proper command at
the right time. This project is to develop a wheel chair The proposed paper can be operated using the gestures of the
control which is useful to the physically disabled person provided android mobile phone. Patients involved in physical
with his hand gesture recognition using Acceleration injuries and disabilities with good mental strength struggle to
technology. It is wheelchair which can be controlled by get through places using the conventional hand powered
simple hand gestures. It employs a sensor which controls wheelchair.
the wheelchair hand gestures made by the user and
interprets the motion intended by user and moves This paper enables an economic assembly in any existing
accordingly. In Acceleration we have Acceleration sensor. wheelchair that enables a smart system for automated motion
When we change the direction, the sensor registers values which can be controlled by any Smartphone. The main
are changed and that values are given to microcontroller. concept involved is Smartphone which has an operating
Depending on the direction of the Acceleration, system as Android which have inbuilt 3 axis accelerometer
microcontroller controls the wheel chair directions like and Bluetooth Wireless technology . The purpose of our paper
LEFT, RIGHT, FRONT, and BACK. can be extended to other mobile devices which has Android
powered mobile phone by sharing the application that we have
Keywords- microcontroller, accelerometer developed. The main second part of our system architecture
sensor, hand gesture, bluetooth. has a microcontroller SST89E51RD which drives the various
directions of the dc motor for directional movement of
I. Introduction wheelchair and powers the DC motor for linear motion of the
wheelchair. The DC motor controls the front wheels for
The most common image of disability is the people in turning the wheelchair while the pair of DC motor connected
wheelchairs. Wheelchairs are used by people who find to the rear wheels enable linear motion. The aim of this paper
themselves unequipped to move without external aid. The is to use wheelchair automatically for moving forward,
special needs of the elderly may differ from that of a backward, Left & Right. The overall wheelchair operation
physically challenged person or a large individual but they all uses DC motor and motor driver module combines with
have special needs and often require some assistance to microcontroller system . The physically challenged, find

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difficult to move the wheel chair without help from others. By

making use of the system, the elderly and the physically
challenged can go to different rooms in the house like kitchen,
living room, dining room etc by just showing a gesture which
is predefined to that particular room. It is also a virtue of the
system that even the foot can be substituted in place of the
hand for users who might find that more convenient. The aim
of this paper is to control a wheel chair and electrical devices
by using ACCELEROMETER SENSOR which is a highly
sensitive sensor and capable of detecting the tilt. This sensor
finds the tilt and makes use of the accelerometer to change the
direction of the wheel chair depending on tilt.

II. LITERATURE SURVEY

In this busy world, gestures play an vital role in humans daily

life in order to convey data and motions of human being. So Fig 1: Block diagram of Wheel chair
gesture Recognition is a part of the Human computer
Interaction (HCI). In recent years Human Computer 3 Axis Acceleration Sensor Board based on ADXL3XX from
Interaction has become an attractive field. Hardware devices Analog devices is used for gesture recognition. It is a first
like mouse, keyboard, joystick can be replaced by compatible generation 3 axis acceleration sensor. User could get
touch less technologies. Different proposed models, acceleration value of X, Y, and Z axis. And it is widely used
algorithms and methodologies have been proposed to achieve in shock, slope, and moving detection. Output sensitivity
touch less environment with human interaction. Foreground could be select by simply set voltage level on few pins. The
and background segmentation is an important issue in video output of the sensor is analog mode. A prototype chair is
processing .The task of video processing becomes difficult implemented with a small chair and 60rpm motors are used to
when there are moving objects and shadows in the video. In move the chair. A free-wheel is arranged to change the chair
this project we analyze the methods for recognition of hand direction according to users requirement.
gesture and different approaches for the segmentation of
bluetooth technique. Automated-Guided Wheelchair NEC This paper uses 12V rechargeable battery.speed and directions
Corporation, Japan-1992 Follows tracks laid out with of the motors are measured by the accelerometer sensor.crystal
magnetic ferrite marker tape. Uses IR sensors to stop when oscillator produces a frequency of 11.0592Mhz for the
obstacles detected in its path.NLPR Robotized Wheelchair microcontroller unit.H-bridge is a motor driver which drive
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China-2000 Uses machine the motors.
vision to identify landmarks for localization. Offers several
operating modes, including wall following, collision IV. FLOWCHART
avoidance, and autonomous navigation to point on map.OMNI
University at Hagen, Germany-19951999 Omnidirectional
wheelchair provides hierarchy of functionality: simple
obstacle avoidance, task-specific operating mode (wall
following, door passage), and autonomous navigation.

III. BLOCK DIAGRAM

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V. ALGORITHM VI. R. C. Simpson. Smart wheelchairs: a literature review.

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development , 2005.
VII. Mazidi,Microcontroller And Embedded System
When the application is opened at that time a request is
VIII. Asebrandt, Susanne iwarsson and Agnetasta, "Older
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If the requirement is to turn right then the right dc motors
are stopped and the left dc motors are supplied with 5V and
the wheelchair moves in right direction.
If the stop virtual button is touched then all the dc motors
are stopped.

VI. CONCLUSION

The design and development of this intelligent wheelchair

based on novel hand gesture control can be successfully
implemented on a commercialized scale for the physically
handicapped and old age people. Our paper is capable to
control the wheelchair motion fordisabled people using hand
gesture. Improvements can be made by using various body
gestures such as eye gaze, head movement accordingly.

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