HAND GESTURE CONTROLLED

WHEEL CHAIR

MINI PROJECT
 ABSTRACT

This project is to develop a wheel chair for physically disabled people

The wheel chair is controlled by hand movement/hand gestures

The gestures are recognized by an accelerometer sensor

An ultrasonic sensor is used to detect the obstacles in front of the chair

The signals from the sensors are processed, and the wheel chair is

controlled by Atmega-328 micro controller

OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION

Introduction and motivation

Background and literature review

About the project(Hardware and software info)

Conclusion and future scope

References

Demo
 INTRODUCTION AND
MOTIVATION

Wheel chair is the best assistive device used by elder and

disabled people
The driving and controlling of traditional wheel chair are much
harder task
Our aim is to build a low cost and powerful wheel chair which
helps the handicapped people to travel without depending
others.
Introducing a prototype of cost effective electronic gesture
based wheel chair
Easy to operate, because this wheel chair can operated even by
a user without palm
BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Arduino UNO
Arduino IDE
Accelerometer
Ultrasonic sensor
Motor Driver and DC Motor
 Arduino UNO

Arduino UNO is a microcontroller board based on

the
ATmega-328
It has
14 digital input/output pins(of which 6 can be
used
as PWM outputs)
6 Analog inputs
A 16 MHz crystal oscillator
A USB connection, a power jack
A reset button

Arduino UNO
 Arduino IDE

Open-source Arduino software(IDE) that makes

easy to write code and upload it to the board
It runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
It is a cross platform application written in Java
It includes a code editor with features such as
syntax highlighting, brace matching and
automatic indentation
It provides simple one-click mechanism for
compiling and loading programs in to an Arduino
board
Arduino IDE
 Accelerometer Sensor

Accelerometer sensor is used to recognize the hand

gestures
It recognizes the acceleration(tilting) of the hand in
both X and Y-axes
It produces different numerical values corresponding
to the direction of acceleration

Accelerometer
 Ultrasonic Sensor
Ultrasonic sensor is used to sense the obstacle in front of the
chair.
It calculates the distance by producing ultrasonic waves.
It has an ultrasonic transmitter and a receiver
The distance is calculated using the expression

distance=(duration/2)*.034

Where ,
duration : the time interval between transmission and
reception
0.034 is the speed of sound in centimeter per microseconds

Ultrasonic
 Motor Driver and DC Motor

The L293D is a 16-pin IC with 8 pins on each side

It is dedicated to the controlling of a motor

An L293D can control 2 motors simultaneously

2 input pins,2 output pins and 1 enable pin for Motor driver IC
each motor

DC Motor
ABOUT THE PROJECT

Hardware components:
Accelerometer sensor

Ultra sonic sensor

Arduino UNO

Software component:
Arduino IDE
Wheel chair architecture
Interfacing of Accelerometer with Arduino

Pin in sensor Port in Arduino

VCC 5V
GND GND
SCL A5
SDA A4
Interfacing of ultrasonic sensor with Arduino

Pin in sensor Port in Arduino

VCC 5V

GND GND

ECHO 12

TRIG 13
Interfacing of Motor driver with Arduino and DC
Motor
 FUNCTION TABLE

Palm movement Function Action

Upward forward( ) Chair moves forward

Downward backward( ) Chair moves backward

Left left( ) Chair moves left

Right right( ) Chair moves right

Horizontal stop( ) Chair stop

FUNCTIONS USED
EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION AND
RESULT

The system was successfully implemented to move the

wheel chair Left, Right, Forward, Backward or Stay in
the same position
The wheel chair detect the obstacle at the front and
stop the movement.
 FUTURE SCOPE

Automated wheel chair can be operated by a wireless

remote which can reduce the wiring arrangements
Instead of using acceleration motion we can use eye retina
using optical sensor to move wheel chair accordingly
We can use voice command ICs to interface our voice
signal with micro-controller
This system can be extended by including GSM which sends
an SMS during emergency
Research are going on development of handicap wheel
chair using nervous system of human
 CONCLUSION

Automated wheel chair can be used to help handicapped

people, especially those who are not able to move
The system was successfully implemented to move the
wheel chair Left, Right, Forward, Backward or Stay in
the same position
 REFERENCES
[1] Rakhi A. Kalantri, D.K. Chitre ,Automatic Wheelchair using Gesture Recognition in
International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT) 2013,pp.146-150

[2] Manisha Devi, B.Anil Kumar, Accelerometer Based Direction Controlled Wheelchair Using
Gesture Technology in International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Technology,2014,pp :
1065-1070

[3] V Sundara Siva Kumar,G.Ramesh, P Nagesh Hand Gesture Based Wheelchair Movement Control
for Disabled Person Using MEMS International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Technology
2015

[4] Prof. Vishal V. Pande, Nikita S.Ubale, Darshana P. Masurkar, Nikita R. Ingole, Pragati P Hand
Gesture Based Wheelchair Movement Control for Disabled Person Using MEMS in International
Journal of Engineering Research and Applications,April 2014, pp:152-158

[5] Arduino website, http://arduino.cc/en/Main/arduinoBoardMega

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