Development of Android Based Powered Intelligent Wheelchair for Quadriplegic Persons

International Conference on Materials, Alloys and Experimental Mechanics 2017

材料科学;金属学;机械制造

Gupta, Ashutosh^1 ; Ghosh, Tathagata^1 ; Kumar, Pradeep^1 ; Bhawna, Shruthi. S.^1

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amity School of Engineering and Technology Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India^1

关键词: Android phones;    Android smartphone;    Bluetooth communications;    Bluetooth wireless communication;    Independent mobilities;    Intelligent wheelchair;    Powered wheel chairs;    Serial communications;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/225/1/012127/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/225/1/012127

学科分类：材料科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Several surveys give us the view that both children and adults benefit substantially from access towards independent mobility. With the inventions of technology, no individuals are satisfied with traditional manual operated machines. To accommodate population, researchers are using technology, originally developed for mobile robots to create 'intelligent wheelchairs'. It's a major challenge for quadriplegic persons as they really find it difficult to manipulate powered wheelchair during the activities of their daily living. As the Smartphone era has evolved with innovative android based applications, engineers are improving and trying to make such machines simple and cheap to the next level. In this paper, we present a development of android based powered intelligent wheelchair to assist the quadriplegic person by making them self sufficient in controlling the wheelchair. The wheels of the chair can be controlled by the voice or gesture movement or by touching the screen of the android app by the challenged persons. The system uses the Bluetooth communication to interface the microcontroller and the inbuilt sensors in the android Smartphone. According to the commands received from android phone, the kinematics of the wheels are controlled.