Voice Controlled Wheelchair for Physically Disabled People

Abstract

Most of the disabled people usually depend on others in their daily life especially in moving from one place to another. For the wheelchair users, continuously they need someone to help them in getting the wheelchair moving. By using a wheelchair control system they become more independent. The moto of this research project is to design and fabricate a voice controlled wheelchair for physically disabled people. The wheelchair control system which deploys a voice recognition system for triggering and controlling all its movements. It integrates a microcontroller, voice recognition through Google assistant, motor control interface board to move the wheelchair. By using the system, the users are able to operate the wheelchair by simply speaking and commanding through Google assistant. The basic functioning process includes forward and reverse direction, left and right turns and stop. It uses a PIC controller manufactured by Microchip Technology to control the system operations. It communicates with the voice recognition through Google assistant and works with the commands which is saved as the number system directed from the Ada-fruit cloud. The speech is given and then determines the corresponding output command to drive the left and right motors. To finish this task, an assembly language program is written and stored in the controller's memory.