AUTOMATIC WHEEL CHAIR

ANISH MISHRA

PRINKESH MISHRA

EMAIL ID: - anish.mangesh66@gmail.com

Prinkesh.mishra@gmail.com

MOBILE NO: - 9167912945

7208042890

AKHIL YADAV

SUBHODH GUPTA

EMAIL ID: -akhilfireon29@gmail.com

sudu.gpt@gmail.com

MOBILE NO: -7208408394

9768520954
THAKUR POLYTECHNIC

Abstract the needs of many individuals with disabilities can be satisfied with traditional manual or
powered wheelchairs, a segment of the disabled community finds it difficult or impossible to use
wheelchairs. There is extensive research on computer-controlled chairs where sensors and intelligent
control algorithms have been used to minimize the level of human intervention. This project describes a
wheelchair for physically disabled people. Our goal is to design and develop a system that allows the user
to robustly interact with the wheelchair at different levels of the control and sensing.
Our project Automatic wheelchair basically works on the principle of touch screen; as soon as the touch
screen pad is pressed the wheel chair will move ahead or backward as per the requirement of the user. Our
wheelchair also contains edge detectors so that any edge that will give the user an impact will be avoided.
The signals that is generated with the touch of the user on touch pad is fed to ADC & then C &
depending on the pulse width it decides to move or not. On chair Obstacle sensors will be installed. Total
4 sensors will be installed for detection of wall/obstacle in the forward, backward, left & right direction.
We are trying to build a controlled wheelchair; the system will understand and obeys natural language
motion commands such as Take a right. Various technologies are used for developing such a system.

Index Terms ATMEGA -16 microcontroller, Ultrasonic Sensor, Resistive Touch Pad, L293D driver IC,
Buzzer, Edge Detector, Win AVR, MAX232 for protocol conversion, 12v DC power supply, Serial cable.

INTRODUCTION
With the increase of elderly and disabled people, a wide range of support devices and modern Equipment
has been developed to help improve their quality of life. Some patients which cannot manipulate the
wheelchair with their arms due to a lack of force face major problems such as orientation, mobility, safety
[5] .There are various kinds of wheelchair which are being manufactured such as

(1) Manual or self propelled wheelchair-It is normal chair arrangement having wheels which are present
on both sides of chair which are dragged by patients manually and Joy-stick operated wheelchair in which
joystick is used for operating.
(2) Speech Recognition-It recognizes the verbal command given by patient and according to that
wheelchair moves.
(3) Image acquisition-It uses camera to detect hand movement and according to it movement occurs.
(4) Sensor controlled- In this sensors like accelerometer sensor and flex sensor. As a stability point of
view it is quite good but it require high accuracy while designing and programming.

Taking all in this in consideration we have decided to do a touch-screen operated wheelchair 1) It is user
friendly technology that operates on touch screen 2) less force is required for operation i.e. single finger is
enough to operate a wheelchair. As touch screen technology is acquiring highest peek in various scientific
as well as commercially developing products, its use in patient friendly devices like wheelchairs may
result in improved quality of service.

WHEELCHAIR SYSTEM
This system includes two modes of operation viz. manual and autonomous mode using arm
microcontroller. In Manual Mode Touch Screen is used which enables user friendly interfacing of the
wheel chair. An autonomous mode enables the patients to navigate indoors at predefined paths. It also
contains obstacle detection techniques with the help of IR sensor. This allows the use of wheelchair for
disabled person to lower the cost and improve effectiveness. The wheelchair users are also facilitated with
wireless communication for emergency situation. The Intelligent wheelchair is developed as a very low
cost product. It is designed as an embedded system and is directly usable; it does not require a laptop or
other heavy devices as compared to the sophisticated wheelchair products available today. Hence it
proves to be ideal solution for physically disabled and elderly people. In the situation where no of
disabled and handicapped are aggravating with war and aging, this product has great timely value.

INTERFACES FOR SYSTEM

The main components of the system contain hardware, software as well as interfacing devices. The
touch-screen is used as input device while LCD is used for display. C language is used for designing the
software. Due to some indoor or outdoor hurdles, there is a possibility of collision as a result of
misjudgment. To avoid this situation this system uses Ultrasonic sensors which senses the obstacle in the
way and system will immediately respond to it. 4 wire touch screen is used as touch screen interface. The
use of resistive touch screen enables low power consumption and millions of touch life.

Two modes of operation such as manual and autonomous will enable the patient a choice of navigation.
AVR Atmega-16 microcontroller is used for processing of the touch screen input as well as the sensor
input.

ALGORITHM
1) Start
2) Turn on power
3) Give command on touch screen panel
4) Choose navigation option as per indoor or outdoor environment
5) Avoiding obstacles automatically through sensors
6) Reach destination
7) Stop

Software design enables the adaptive changes in the system without changing the hardware as per
patients requirement. Some additional facilities can be added with the help of software. Patients with
cognitive disorder require different arrangement than elderly patients.

CONCUSION
We have described the system which is driven by the sensors and advanced algorithm. Though we are
mainly focusing on touch screen based system interface, further advancements can be done through more
research. The interface and software can be modified and redeveloped according to the level of disability
of the patient.

UNIQUENESS OF THE PROJECT: Touchpad which will control the overall motion of the wheel chair
Ultrasonic sensors which will avoid the collision from the walls or any object placed in between
Edge detectors to detect the edges or stairs present on the floors to avoid impact on user
360 degree motors which allow the user to rotate 360 degree to avoid any inconvenient in narrow path
Automatic light which will turned on whenever the user enters in a dark room
Alarms that will help the user to identify any problems issued with the wheel chair
APPLICATION OF THE PROJECT

The wheelchair can be operated by a handicapped person as this wheelchair will require a single touch
to operate it

The wheelchair can also be operated by the blind people as the wheelchair will avoid collision and
indicate the user about the object placed in between

The user will not have to apply any force for the operation of wheelchair

The wheelchair is easy to use since the touch of the user is required

Any fault in wheelchair will be indicated to the user hence it is very safer to use