Android Controlled Wheelchair

Abstract

A wide spread in the count of people’s temporary or permanent disabilities led to an increase in the demand for wheelchairs. Wheelchairs are used by the people who cannot walk due to physical illness, injury or other disability. Now-a-days development promises a wide scope in developing smart wheelchair. Wheelchair now comes in diverse selection of styles which makes it exceedingly difficult for a person to select one that properly fits their lifestyle. Our project is to implement a home navigation system, which comprises of a wheelchair which will be monitored using an android phone. Android phones being easily accessible to every household, our project will focus to operate the wheelchair that works on the inputs such as voice, touch and gesture via an android phone and navigates according to the commands provided. It is common that the elders and physically challenged people find it hard to move the wheelchair without external aid. By making use of HNS, elderly and the physically challenged can move to different location in a house just by pronouncing the direction name or by making the movement on the android phones or just by selecting the move direction they will be provided with. This will be a boon for many disabled people to operate the wheelchair on their own.