Design and implementation of low cost intelligent wheelchair

Abstract

The wide spread prevalence of lost limbs and sensing system is of major concern in present day due to wars, accident, age and health problems. An intelligent wheelchair is developed to help these type of patients by using speech recognition system to control the movement of wheelchair in different directions by using voice commands and also the simple movement of the patient's fingers with keypad control. Automatic obstacle detection is done using an ultrasound system which helps the patient to apply a temporary brake in case any obstacle suddenly comes in the way of the wheelchair. The intelligent wheelchair is designed in such a way that it can be controlled easily with minimum effort from the patient and also provides protection from obstacle collision if any voice mistake happens. The main advantage is the low cost design which allows more number of patients to use this type of wheelchair.