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 Declaration by the Students and Project Guide
Date:

To,
The Head of the Department,
Department of ECE,
Sambhram Institute of Technology,
Bangalore-560097

We the students of 8th Semester ECE, doing the Final Year Project, declare that,

1. The Hardware/Software is not purchased/brought from any outside organisation.

2. The Hardware/Software is not from any other previous final year engineering projects
of VTU.
3. Our Project work is as per VTU norms and we have followed the rules and
regulations.

Violating any of the above conditions, we will accept the action taken by the
Department/ College/ VTU in this regard.

The Title of the Project is

“AN INTELLIGENT VOICE CONTROLLED TYPING ROBOTIC ARM FOR

THE DISABLED”

The project work is guided by Dr. Veena C.S

Sl No Students Name USN Signature

1 Ndoro N Chrispine 1ST15EC063

2 Pallab Jyoti Singha 1ST15EC67

3 Rajat Kumar 1ST15EC81

4 Surya S.P 1ST15EC92

Guide : Dr. Veena C.S

Designation : Professor.
Signature :

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The successful completion of this project work was made possible with the help and
guidance received by us from various quarters. We would like to take this opportunity to
convey our sincere gratitude to all people who have guided us during the course of this project,
without whose guidance and encouragement, this project would not have become a reality.

We consider it a great privilege to extend our heart full gratitude to our esteemed
principal Dr. H. G. Chandrakanth, Principal, SaIT who constantly inspired us towards the
attainment of everlasting knowledge throughout our course. We are highly indebted to him
for his encouragement.

We express our sincere thanks to Dr. C. V. Ravishankar, Head of Department,

Electronics & Communication Engineering, SaIT for granting us permission to intake
project at college premises.

We would like to express our profound thanks to our project coordinator, Prof. S.
Sowndeswari, Asst. prof, Dept. of ECE, SaIT for providing excellent lab facilities and also
giving us valuable information and motivating us to attain our goals.

We express our gratitude to our internal guide Dr. Veena C.S, Prof, Dept. of ECE,
SaIT for helpful tips and timely suggestions.

We express our gratitude to our beloved parents who extended their moral support and
guidance throughout our project. We thank all the faculty members of ECE Department who
helped us directly or indirectly in completion of our project.

Finally, we would like to thank all our friends for their suggestions and helping us to
make this project a successful one.

PALLAB JYOTI SINGHA [1ST15EC067]

NDORO N CHRISPINE [1ST15EC063]
SURYA S.P [1ST15EC067]
RAJAT KUMAR [1ST15EC081]

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 ABSTRACT

The society has not given enough opportunities to the differently able people to leverage on
the new existing technologies in the world. The need to give opportunities to people with
disabled arm to leverage on the new technologies has been our primary objective in the design
and development of this project. This is because physically handicapped people are also an
important resource of our society and they can equally and immensely contribute towards the
development of our nation and hence the need for their inclusion in today’s informational
world.
The project involves the design and development of a system that would help the arm
disabled/paralysed people to operate a computer system using keyboard essentially. The system
includes two robotic arms that are controlled using a microcontroller and a voice recognition
module which is predefined with voice commands. The arms are placed on a standard keyboard
and they can press any of the keys as per the voice command of the user. The speech recognition
module is interfaced with a microcontroller which will control the robotic arms. The device at
its initial design will be able to use keyboard to type using the arm. Several other features like
operate specific software, working on CAD platforms and application specific operations can
be added to its functionalities by training the device and implementing more libraries.
Thus, focusing on solving the problems for armless people to use keyboard for just
typing as the first feature, our project intends to provide an effortless control of robotic arms
using voice commands to help the arm disabled people to operate a computer system. Therefore
it will help them to take advantage of the existing technologies and hence the opportunities that
comes whereof.

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 CONTENTS
Chapters Page No
FRONT PAGE i

CERTIFICATE ii

DECLARATION iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv

ABSTRACT v

Chapter – 1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Project Overview 1-2

1.2 Objectives 3

Chapter – 2 LITERATURE SURVEY 4-8

Chapter – 3 PROPOSED SYSTEM

3.1 Block Diagram 9

3.2 Flowchart 10

Chapter – 4 POWER SUPPLY BOARD

4.1 Raspberry Pi DC Adapter 11

4.2 Servo Motors DC Adapters 12

4.3 Solenoid Power Adapter 12

Chapter – 5 HARDWARE DESCRIPTION

5.1 Raspberry Pi 3 B+ 13-16

5.2 Servo Motors 16-20

5.3 Push Pull Solenoid 21

5.4 Relay 22-23

5.5 Standard Keyboard 24

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 5.6 Microphone 24

5.7 Robotic Arm Design and Material 25-28

Chapter – 6 SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION

6.1 Python 3.5 29-32

Chapter – 7 METHODOLOGY 23-36

Chapter – 8 ADVANTAGES AND APPLICATIONS 37

Chapter – 9 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 38-39

Chapter – 10 CONCLUSION 40

References

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