instructables

Automatic Wheel Chair

by ManikantaK6

Nowadays, in our society, We are coming across a lot Integrated Development platform. Firstly, Voice
of old people and physically disabled people with module is trained with 4 commands. After that, the
their problems. So, we would like to help them with all voice command is sent by the user. The
our effort. We created a helping hand for them which microcontroller is used to check the signal associated
can take them wherever they want and can manage with this command and compare it with the stored
them without any one’s help. commands and performs the task related to this
command. Here, in our project, we have used the
The automatic wheelchair is the device which came self-developed application on the Android
out from these ideas. This wheelchair can adjust in smartphone and then we have connected it with the
multiple push back angles to keep them in a Bluetooth module.
comfortable position. Automatic wheelchair comes
with multi controlling ability according to situation and The Bluetooth module which is used is HC-05 to
person who uses it. In further discussion, we can go interface the wheelchair with Android and to navigate
deeper into it. In the smart automated wheelchair, the it. And finally, remote control features and manually
hardware circuit is mainly used to recognize, operated joystick-controlled feature in the smart
digitalize and transmit the control signal to L239D IC. wheelchair are also added. The main reason behind
In this paper, we are using ATMEGA328 based adding a Bluetooth module is that it is the easiest way
development board. Development board is to go wireless in interfacing humans and computer.
programmed using embedded C language in

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required elements are with the commands which were being set by the
developer. If it gets a ping, the operation which is
1. Arduino UNO R3 corresponding to the particular instruction is
executed.
2. Bluetooth module
On the other hand, the remote control is operated
3. servo motor X 2 using the same medium. The encoding and decoding
of data are similar to the above procedure. Through
4. wheels one remote, the number of chairs can be easily
controlled just by selecting the profile of the desired
5. duplicate wheel chair. The remote control automatically connects to
the individual Bluetooth medium after the user selects
6. motor driver(l298) the preferred profile through the interface.

7. chassis JOYSTICK:

8. joystick In the manual controlling mode, the user can drive his
own chair using an interface called joystick. Basically,
9. Bluetooth app the joystick is a three-channel communication device
which can be used in five combinations. Generally, it
[Link] phone contains two axis X&Y whose value varies from 0 to
1024 and additionally it contains a switch which gives
BLUETOOTH(HC-05): input zero or one. The algorithm for the chair is
designed in such a way that each input corresponds
As both voice and remote-control modes belong to to a particular function.
wireless communication. they require a medium to
transfer data in between chair and interface. Here, SERVO MOTOR:
Bluetooth is used as a medium to connect chair with
wireless devices. In speech recognition mode, some In this project, these motors are used for back push
commands are initially set by the developer in the adjustment and plank adjustment of the chair. The
user’s comfortable language. During the control of the range of servo motor is 0 to 180 degrees. In this
chair, each command given by user will get decoded project, the back push has been introduced with five
into some unique set of special characters which comfortable angles and more angles can also be
should be kept anonymous. The received analog data included.
will be converted into digital data and transfer of data
is done in the serial communication mode in 9600 Similarly, the plank can also be adjusted in the same
baud rate. The data received by Bluetooth is in digital manner, but this project uses only two angles.
form, it later converted into analog form and verified

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VOICE AND REMOTE CONTROLLED takes the commands in their comfortable language.
People can control their chair easily and can drive
This chair perfectly fits for all kinds of people. Let us themselves without relying on others.
consider old people, they can’t move everywhere
repeatedly like other people. They need some In case of people with physically challenged and can’t
assistance to take them wherever and whenever they even raise their voice. We installed remote controlled
want to. Disabled people also face the same problem. mode in which chair can be controlled easily by an
But, their voice may still work. So, by taking their external person or mentors. Through the remote-
voices as the main key to driving the chair, we controlled system, each and every function of the
installed speech recognition system. Speech chair will be accessed. For example, in old age
recognition system interacts with the people and homes and hospitals, the count of people is high. So,

the number of chairs are also high. The problem in In parallel to voice and remote control, we also
this scenario is that the mentors get confused by the installed manual controlling mode. Without any
remote corresponding to a particular chair. To external support, one can easily drive one’s chair by
overcome this problem, we introduced “one to many” simply operating a joystick attached to it. There is no
system. Through this, it interfaces with the mentor necessity that the person is to be educated. Even an
and provides them with an option to select the illiterate can easily control by simply tilting the
desired chair. joystick. The joystick contains 5channels through
which every function can be easily controlled.
MANUAL CONTROLLED

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MULTIPLE ANGLE ADJUSTMENT PLANK MODE

The extra feature for the chair is multiple angle To write something, or to do some work, they need
adjustment. By sitting in one position continuously, some support which can hold tools for them. So, we
people will feel some inconvenience. To avoid that, created a plank mode in which it can provide a plank
we are providing five multiple angles to which they whenever it needs and removes plank by simply
can adjust chair in their comfortable position. The pressing a button.
angle can be adjusted by any one of the following
three modes.

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Download
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Great project. Good luck in the Microcontroller contest.

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