INTERNAL GUIDE: Mr. S.SIVAKUMAR M.E.

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BATCH: S.IYYAPPAN B.E., G.MURALI B.E., K.SATHISH B.E.,

ABSTRACT:
When an unfortunate event affects the motor capacity of a person, it is necessary to use devices like wheelchairs that offer a means o displacement for patients with motors problems of the lower limbs. Some patients that cannot manipulate the wheelchair with their arms due to a lack of force or psychomotor problems in the superior members, request electric wheelchairs, frequently manipulated with joysticks; however the joystick manipulation is even not practical and frequently it must be handle with the mouth.

The present article presents the partial results in the development of a wheelchair controlled by an intuitive interface, where the instructions are given by hand gesture instructions. The advances are presented in the realization of the control software using a Webcam and some distances and presence sensors controlled by a PIC microcontroller that establishes the communication with a program developed in Labview.

BLOCK DIAGRAM:

EXISTING SYSTEM:

Joystick is used to control the wheelchair. Another type of wheelchair controller is by means of voice recognition.

EXISTING SYSTEM DISADVANTAGE:

Joystick method is difficult to handle for some handicapped and aged people. Voice recognition method is very dangerous because it can act by some external noise in the environment.

PROPOSED SYSTEM:
It continuously capturing the image of the person and his image is compared with data base. By means of his hand movements wheelchair moves. If hand movement is up= front, down= backwards, right= turn right, left= turn left moves by the wheelchair.

PROPOSED SYSTEM ADVANTADES:

It can be operated by one who seating in that chair only not affected by external hand movements. In this system is easy to handle by any type of users by the combination of image processing with embedded it works perfectly.

SOFTWARE REQUIRED:

Digital image processing for hand gesture control. Labview for wheelchair control.

DOMAIN:

Embedded along with Digital Image Processing.

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