The economical design of a hand-gesture and bluetooth controlled wheel-chair by integrating indigenous components: Mobility aid for the disabled

Abstract

Millions of people around the world are handicapped and most of the amputees belong to a war struck third world regions. Any amputee who is unable to walk needs prosthetics which are costly or wheel chairs for movement. Manual wheel chairs are not easy to use. Most of the people cannot afford high quality motorized expensive wheel chairs. Keeping all this in mind, a very economical hand gesture-controlled wheel chair design is proposed. This wheel chair reads the signal sent from control glove and can also be switched to mobile application control where needed. The overall implementation design has simplicity and robustness which are dire features of wheelchair applications.