Wireless Gesture Controlled Robot Car using Arduino Microcontroller
Devineni Madhusudhan Naidu, Dr.K.Purushotham Prasad · Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research · 2021
This paper is to develop a wheel chair control which is useful to the physically disabled person with his hand movement or his hand gesture recognition using Acceleration technology. Tremendous leaps have been made in the field of wheelchair technology. However, even these significant advances haven‟t been able to help quadriplegics navigate wheelchair unassisted. It is wheelchair which can be controlled by simple hand gestures. It employs a Flex sensor which controls the wheelchair hand gestures made by the user and interprets the motion intended by user and moves accordingly. In Acceleration we have Acceleration sensor. When we change the direction, the flex sensor are changed and that values are given to microcontroller. Depending on the direction of the Acceleration, microcontroller controls the wheel chair directions like LEFT, RIGHT, FRONT, and BACK. The aim of this paper is to implement wheel chair direction control with hand gesture reorganization. According to a research there are about 6 million populations in the world who are paralysed and needs a wheelchair for their mobility. Earlier the wheel chairs had to be moved and be externally supported by any person. To help overcome this “joystick-controlled wheelchairs” are developed. But in regular use, these joystick-controlled wheelchairs became difficult to use. Especially in the case of paralysed people, the use of joystick became more difficult due to the hard buttons and unidirectional use of the joysticks. To overcome these problems, we’ve tried to develop a “gesture-controlled wheelchair” which can be moved with a slight tilt of the hand. This can be used in both hands and can be controlled to come to the user from a distance. The current work is implemented with Arduino based devices such as Arduino and UNO processors and programmed through Arduino IDE.