Voice Control Wheel Chair

Redesign Project
Need Statement:

In this idea project I’m describing the innovation in the concept of wheel chair being used for

decades and idea is to use intelligent voice controlled wheelchair which operates on user’s

voice commands. The disabled people cannot move from one place to another on their own.

They continuously need someone to help them in getting the wheelchair moving. This voice

controlled system makes them more independent. Powered wheelchairs with the standard

joystick interface are unable to be control by many people. A voice controlled wheelchair can

provide easy access for physical disabled person who cannot control their movements

especially hands. Few patients such as quadriplegic, cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis are

dependent on other people to move from one place to another and due to this they don’t have

the freedom of mobility. This voice controlled wheelchair helps them to drive the wheelchair

without anyone’s help. This system can be controlled by the simple voice commands given by

the user. Depending upon the direction specified in the commands, the Arduino will drive the

motors. The speech recognition is done by voice recognition module, connected with Arduino.

The wheelchair would operate on real analogous voice signal of patient or user using the

wheelchair.

Advantages to strengthen point to introduce this renovation:

 Using voice control wheel chair will greatly reduce the dependency of many people and

disabled person can use it easily with full freedom.

 Implementation of this idea will also reduce human efforts too as no extra force is to be

applied to move the wheel chair.

  It will also reduce the risks.

 Less hardware is required

 Economical

 User and environmental friendly

Problem Definition:

People have disabilities with their hands, foot and lower extremities because of which they are

unable to perform regular tasks. Many technologies are available to overcome this problem. To

overcome this problem, there are several applications in the market which help handicapped

people to perform their tasks. Proposed design supports voice activation system for physically

disabled persons incorporating manual operation. If a person is handicapped, they are

dependent upon others for their day to day operations such as orientation etc.

Functions:

 Voice control wheel chair can move the disabled person from one place to desired place

without help of someone to drag the chair rather just making use of voice command it

can serve the same purpose.

 It will also reduce the risks.

 It can serve old people who can’t utilize enough energy for their movement.

 Safely movement of disable person and to perform certain tasks.

Goals, Design Objective and Design Constraints:

The voice control wheel chair is intended to help disable people to move without relying on

someone to serve this purpose. Ideally this wheel chair will bypass the idea of use of wheel

chair which was operating manually by the disabled person or by the help of someone to move.

This wheel chair should include a number of commands in two or more languages to be used by

either person having ability to understand different language.

Constraints:

 The wheel chair should be able to carry weight upto 150 kg safely.

 The wheel chair should be capable enough to understand commands delivered in

different languages even.

 Sensors should be good enough to be controlled at low frequency sound too as of old

people.

 There must be an option to show if there is some problem inside system to let the user

to repair it.

Methodology to achieve Design Objectives:

 Firstly we have to analyze the current wheel chair working on old idea and their mode of

working and to make a comparison of features absent in old model and this design

project should include.

 After examining different models and having the comparison between these techniques

we have to specifically describe the features we are going to add and also to specify the

features which are going to be modified.

  On behalf of these features, we will focus on creating design constraints to implement

our design idea.

 Using key ideas we will make sketches with the components on rough assembly so that

calculations can be made via proper route.

 Once all the sketches are prepared we will make the calculations like motor which is

going to be installed should be of which power and other specifications.

 After making all the calculations we have to perform analysis test to ensure that

selected material and components can serve the required purpose.

 Lastly results of tests should be compared against goals for the use of voice control

wheel chair to see if expectations have been met, if they have not then further

refinements will have to be made.

Design Constraints and Criteria:

 Wheel chair should be able to carry 150 kg weight.

 There should be more languages to make it universal to be used by user of any area

having different language.

 The material of construction should be good and of high quality to withstand the weight

and serve required results.

 The motor should be fully functional with maximum weight.

 Seat of chair should be good material to provide comfort to the user.

Disadvantages:

 It cause problem in noisy environment.

  Only the installed voice is recognized by the module.

 Proper maintenance is needed to make it useful for long time.

Conclusion:

 The design and implementation of a voice controlled wheelchair for disabled people

using arduino and voice recognition module for controlling the motion of a wheelchair is

designed. The direction of the wheelchair now can be selected using the specified voice

commands.

 The design not only reduce the manufacture cost compared with present market but

also will give great competitive with other types of electrical wheelchair. The only thing

needed to ride the wheelchair is the synthetic voice commands of the person.

 A system that can directly enhance the lifestyle of a physically disabled person in the

community is implemented. This project has many advantages like safety, comfort,

energy saving, full automation etc.

 The technology can also enhanced safely for users who use ordinary joystick-controlled

wheelchair, by preventing collision with walls, fixed objects, furniture and other people.

Thus all the drawbacks of the joystick controlled wheelchair are overcome by this "voice

controlled wheelchair".
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