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A LOW COST WIRELESS HAND GESTURE HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION

SYSTEM

AIM:
The project aims in designing and implementing a wireless mouse system with MEMS
accelerometer which helps the paralyzed people to control PC through gestures of any body part.
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this project is to implement the low cost, low power inertial sensor based
mouse with wireless capability, which will provide ease of use.

BLOCK DIAGRAM:
TRANSMITTER:

POWER SUPPLY

MICRO
CONTROLLER

ENCODER

ACCELER
OMETER

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RF
TRANSMIT
TER

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RECEIVER:

RF
RECEIVER

POWER
SUPPLY

MAX232

MICRO
CONTROLLER
DECODER

PC

POWER SUPPLY:

Step Down

Bridge

Filter

Transformer

Rectifier

Circuit

Regulator
section

DESCRIPTION:
This system makes use of movements of any body part to which MEMS accelerometer
sensor is fixed and helps in the movement of the cursor.
The cursor movements help in operating all the PC applications. The control system consists of
MEMS accelerometer sensor and microcontroller. Microcontroller collects data from the sensor

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and announces appropriate cursor movement for that data (gestures). This operation is done by
the Microcontroller which is loaded with an intelligent program written using embedded C
language.
This system uses MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) accelerometer devices and
measures only mechanical X and Y-axis acceleration of the movements of a mouse which will be
converted into (X, Y) coordinates on the screen.
When user moves the mouse, the acceleration is measured by a MEMS accelerometer. The
degree of acceleration is represented by the difference between two different capacitance values
in the MEMS device.
By holding it one way, it can sense forward/backward and left/right. If you hold it a different
way, it can sense up/down and forward/backward. Two axes of acceleration is enough for many
of the applications.

The system contains the ability to measure the acceleration of movements that are modulated and
converted into two dimensional location coordinates.

TECHNOLOGY:
MEMS TECHNOLOGY:
Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) are Freescales enabling technology for
acceleration and pressure sensors. MEMS based sensor products provide an interface that can
sense, process or control the surrounding environment. MEMS-based sensors are a class of
devices that builds very small electrical and mechanical components on a single chip. MEMSbased sensors are a crucial component in automotive electronics, medical equipment, hard disk
drives, computer peripherals, wireless devices and smart portable electronics such as cell phones
and PDAs.

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MEMS technology provides the following advantages: cost-efficiency, low power,

miniaturization, high performance, and integration. Functionality can be integrated on the same
silicon or in the same package, which reduces the component count. This contributes to overall
cost savings.

SOFTWARES:
1. Embedded C
2. Keil IDE
3. Uc-Flash
HARDWARES:
1- Microcontroller
2- Accelerometer
3- PC
4- RF module
5- Max232
6- Power supply
OBJECTIVES:

1. Implementing a MEMS accelerometer sensor.

2. Operating PC using body gestures.

RESULT:

This system is specifically designed for paralyzed people to control PC using body gestures, but
can be utilized for other applications such as inertial navigation, seismology, and micro-gravity
measurements.

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