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RESEARCH ARTICLE

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Hand Gesture Based Wheelchair Movement Control for Disabled

Person Using MEMS.
Prof. Vishal V. Pande, Nikita S.Ubale, Darshana P. Masurkar, Nikita R. Ingole,
Pragati P. Mane
Instrumentation Department,Vidyavardhinis College of Engineering and Technology,K. T. Marg, At Post
Vasai Road (W),Thane,Mumbai University,Pin-401202.

ABSTRACT
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 havent been able to help
quadriplegics navigate wheelchair unassisted.It is wheelchair which can be controlled by simple hand gestures.
It employs a 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 sensor registers values 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.
Keywords- Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), wheelchair..

I. INTRODUCTION
This paper proposes an integrated approach
to real time detection, tracking and direction
recognition of hands, which is intended to be used as
a human-robot interaction interface for the intelligent
wheelchair. This paper is to demonstrate that
accelerometers can be used to effectively translate
finger and hand gestures into computer interpreted
signals. For gesture recognition the accelerometer
data is calibrated and filtered. The accelerometers can
measure the magnitude and direction of gravity in
addition to movement induced acceleration. In order
to calibrate the accelerometers, we rotate the
devicessensitive axis with respect to gravity and use
the
resultant
signal
as
an
absolute
measurement.Integrating a single chip wireless
solution with a MEMS accelerometer would yield an
autonomous device small enough to apply to the
fingernails, because of their small size and weight.
Accelerometers are attached to the fingertips and back
of the hand. Arrows on the hand show the location of
accelerometers and their sensitive directions, that the
sensitive direction of the accelerometer is in the plane
of the hand.The gesture based wheelchair is suitable
for the elderly and the physically challenged people
who are unfortunate to have lost ability in their limbs
due to paralysis or by birth or by old age. Elders find
it tough to move inside the house for day to day
activities without help or external aid. Our proposed
system makes use of a wheelchair that can be used by
elderly or physically
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challenged to move inside the home without difficulty

and without external aid. The elders may also forget
the way to the different rooms in house due to the
increase in forgetfulness as they become older. The
physically challenged, find difficult to move the
wheel chair without help from others. By making use
of the system, the elderly and the physically
challenged can go to different rooms in the house like
kitchen, living room, dining room etc by just showing
a gesture which is predefined to that particular room.
It is also a virtue of the system that even the foot can
be substituted in place of the hand for users who
might find that more convenient.The aim of this
project is to controlling a wheel chair and electrical
devices by using MEMS ACCELEROMETER
SENSOR (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems)
technology. MEMS ACCELEROMETER SENSOR is
a Micro ElectrMechanical Sensor which is a highly
sensitive sensor and capable of detecting the tilt. This
sensor finds the tilt and makes use of the
accelerometer to change the direction of the wheel
chair depending on tilt. For example if the tilt is to the
right side then the wheel chair moves in right
direction or if the tilt is to the left side then the wheel
chair moves in left direction. Wheel chair movement
can be controlled in Forward, Reverse, and Left and
Right direction along with obstacle detection using
ultrasonic sensor.Automation is the most frequently
spelled term in the field of electronics. The hunger for
automation brought many revolutions in the existing
technologies. One among the technologies, which had
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greater
developments,
is
the
MEMS
ACCELEROMETER SENSOR. These had greater
importance than any other technologies due its userfriendly nature. MEMS ACCELEROMETER
SENSOR based devices can be easily reachable to the
common man due to its simpler operation.

II. NEED OF PROJECT

This paper to develop a wheel chair control which is
useful to the physically disabled person with his hand
movement or his hand gesture reorganization. With
the help of the wheel chair physically disabled person
would able to move himself to the desired location
with the help of hand gestures which controls the
movement of the chair. This paper aims to provide a
feasible solution to those handicapped people who do
not have the ability to maneuver the wheelchair by
themselves. These include people with serious
paralytic condition. Wheelchair automated control
systems proved to be versatile tools for many
problems in human-computer interface systems.
Basically, they are used for providing better usability
of a computer or a system for people, including
disabled people.

III. TECHNOLOGY
Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)
are free scales enabling technology for acceleration
and pressure sensors. MEMS based sensor products
provide an interface that can sense, process or control
the
surrounding environment.
Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems, or MEMS, is a technology that
in its most general form can be defined as
miniaturized mechanical and electro-mechanical
elements (i.e., devices and structures) that are made
using the techniques of micro fabrication.MEMSbased sensors are a class of devices that builds very
small electrical and mechanical components on a
single chip. MEMS-based sensors are a crucial
component in automotive electronics, medical
equipment, hard disk drives, computer peripherals,
wireless devices and smart portable electronics such
as cell phones and PDAs.The functional elements of
MEMS are miniaturized structures, sensors, actuators,
and microelectronics, the most notable (and perhaps
most interesting) elements are the micro sensors and
micro actuators. Micro sensors and micro actuators
are appropriately categorized as transducers, which
are defined as devices that convert energy from one
form to another. In the case of micro sensors, the
device typically converts a measured mechanical
signal into an electrical signal.MEMS technology
provides the following advantages: cost-efficiency,
low power, miniaturization, high performance, and
integration. Functionality can be integrated on the
same silicon or in the same package, which reduces
the component count. This contributes to overall
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costsavings. Hence with this paper we can save the

physically disabled persons who use wheel chairs they
can control their wheel chair with their hand
movements.

IV. LITERATURE SURVEY

When an unfortunate event affects the motor
capacity of a person, it is necessary to use devices like
wheelchairs that offer a means of displacement for
patients with motors problems of the lower
limbs.Tremendous leaps have been made in the field
of wheelchair technology. However, even these
significant advances havent been able to help
quadriplegics navigate wheelchair unassisted.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 Lab
view. This paper is inspired from an IEEE Research
Paper Titled A Wearable Head- Mounted SensorBased Apparatus for Eye Tracking Applications that
was presented in the IEEE International Conference
on
Virtual Environments, Human-Computer
Interfaces, and Measurement Systems Istanbul,
Turkey, dated 14-16 July 2008. The above paper
approach was dealing with wheelchair control using
eye ball movement with slight modification to it. Our
paper deals with the control of wheelchair motion by
hand gesture.

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V. HARDWARE
2.1 TRANSMITTER MODULE

Figure 1. Circuit Diagram Of Transmitter Module

2.1.1. ACCELEROMETER
An accelerometer is an apparatus, either
mechanical or electromechanical, for measuring
acceleration or deceleration - that is, the rate of
increase or decrease in the velocity of a moving
object. The measurement of acceleration or one of its
derivative properties such as vibration, shock, or tilt
has become very commonplace in a wide range of
products. Compact acceleration sensor for measuring
acceleration is 2axis. Our new acceleration sensor
using the high-quality ADXL202 sensor from
analogdevices and can measure acceleration from -2g
to +2g in either X or Y axis.Save time and money
with this pre-mounted and assembled acceleration
sensor unit. No need to solder the small SMD ADXL
part, this unit comes completely assembled and ready
to operate. The compact unit can be easily mounted
on a robot or mobile unit, with easy to connect header
for signal output.Output is in PWM format and can
beconnected directly to a microcontroller. The unit
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has minimum power requirements and a fast response

time. Ideal for use in robots, guidance systems ,car
systems, model aircraft and much more.

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The ADXL202E is a low-cost, low-power,
complete 2-axis accelerometer with a digital output,
all on a single monolithic IC. It is animproved
version
of
the
ADXL202AQC/JQC.
The
ADXL202Ewill measure accelerations with a fullscale range of 2 g. TheADXL202E can measure both
dynamic acceleration (e.g., vibration)and static
acceleration (e.g., gravity).The outputs are analog
voltage or digital signals whose duty cycles(ratio of
pulsewidth to period) are proportional to
acceleration.The duty cycle outputs can be directly
measured by a microprocessorcounter, without an
A/D converter or glue logic. Theduty cycle period is
adjustable from 0.5ms to 10ms via a singleresistor
(RSET).The bandwidth of the accelerometer is set
with capacitors CX andCY at the XFILT and YFILT
pins. An analog output can be reconstructedby
filtering the duty cycle output. The ADXL202E is a
complete, dual-axis acceleration measurementsystem
on a single monolithic IC. It contains a polysilicon
surface micro machinesensor and signal conditioning
circuitry to implement open loop acceleration
measurement architecture. Foreach axis, an output
circuit converts the analog signal to a dutycycle
modulated (DCM) digital signal that can be decoded
witha counter/timer port on a microprocessor. The
ADXL202E iscapable of measuring both positive and
negative accelerations to at least 2 g. The
accelerometer can measure static accelerationforces
such as gravity, allowing it to be used as a tilt sensor.
The sensor is a surface micro machined polysilicon
structurebuilt on top of the silicon wafer. Polysilicon
springs suspendthe structure over the surface of the
wafer and provide a resistanceagainst acceleration
forces. Deflection of the structure is measured using a
differential capacitor that consists of independent
fixedplates and central plates attached to the moving
mass. The fixedplates are driven by 180 out of phase
square waves. An accelerationwill deflect the beam
and unbalance the differential capacitor,resulting in
an output square wave whose amplitude is
proportional to acceleration. Phase sensitive
demodulation techniques arethen used to rectify the
signal and determine the direction ofthe
acceleration.The output of the demodulator drives a
duty cycle modulator (DCM) stage through a 32k
resistor. At this point a pin isavailable on each
channel to allow the user to set the signal
bandwidthof the device by adding a capacitor. This
filtering improvesmeasurement resolution and helps
prevent aliasing.After being low-pass filtered, the
analog signal is converted to aduty cycle modulated
signal by the DCM stage. A single resistorsets the
period for a complete cycle (T2), which can be set
between 0.5ms and 10ms (see Figure 12). A 0g
acceleration produces
50% duty cycle. The
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acceleration signal can be determinedby measuring

the length of the T1 and T2 pulses witha
counter/timer or with a polling loop using a low cost
microcontroller.An analog output voltage can be
obtained either by buffering thesignal from the
XFILT and YFILT pin, or by passing the duty
cyclesignal through an RC filter to reconstruct the dc
value.The ADXL202E will operate with supply
voltages as low as 3.0V or as high as 5.25V.This
graph shows the X axis. The accelerometer starts
level, and then is tilted to the left, then to the right,
then level again:

Fig 2. X-axis of accelerometer

This graph shows the Y axis. The
accelerometer starts level, and then is tilted forward,
then back then level again.

Fig 3. Y-axis of accelerometer

2.2 RECEIVER MODULE

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Figure 4.Circuit Diagram Of Receiver Module

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VCC

High side
Right
1

High side
left
-

2
2

DC MOTOR

Low side
left

Low side
Right

SW1
1

RF ASK Receiver Module: This is an ASK Hybrid

receiver module. It is an effective low cost solution to
receiving data at 315/433MHz.
2.2.1. D.C. Motor A dc motor uses electrical energy
to produce mechanical energy, very typically through
the interaction of magnetic fields and currentcarrying conductors. The reverse process, producing
electrical energy from mechanical energy, is
accomplished by an alternator, generator or dynamo.
Many types of electric motors can be run as
generators, and vice versa. The input of a DC motor
is current/voltage and its output is torque (speed).

Figure 6.H Bridge (Dc Motor Driver)

The switches are turned on in pairs, either
high left and lower right, or lower left and high right,
but never both switches on the same "side" of the
bridge. If both switches on one side of a bridge are
turned on it creates a short circuit between the battery
plus and battery minus terminals. If the bridge is
sufficiently powerful it will absorb that load and your
batteries will simply drain quickly

VI. APPLICATIONS

Fig 5. DC Motor
The DC motor has two basic parts: the
rotating part that is called the armature and the
stationary part that includes coils of wire called the
field coils. The stationary part is also called the
stator. Figure shows a picture of a typical DC motor,
Figure shows a picture of a DC armature, and Fig
shows a picture of a typical stator. From the picture
you can see the armature is made of coils of wire
wrapped around the core, and the core has an
extended shaft that rotates on bearings. You should
also notice that the ends of each coil of wire on the
armature are terminated at one end of the armature.
The termination points are called the commentator,
and this is where the brushes make electrical contact
to bring electrical current from the stationary part to
the rotating part of the machine.

In Hospitals for handicapped patients: Some

patients that cannot manipulate the wheelchair with
their arms due to a lack of force or psychomotor
problems in the superior members require electric
wheelchair. The wheelchair is operated with the help
of accelerometer, which in turn controls the
wheelchair with the help of hand gesture. The
wheelchair moves front, back, right and left. Due to
which disabled and partially paralyzed patient can
freely move.
Overview Of The Project

H Bridge (Dc Motor Driver):

The H-bridge is so named because it has
four switching elements at the "corners" of the H and
the motor forms the cross bar. The basic bridge is
shown in the figure to the right

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VII. RESULT:
COMPONENTS
LM7805 input voltage
LM7805 output voltage
Sensors input voltage
L293d output voltage

VOLTAGE RATINGS
11.05
4.89
4.87
11.04

[4]

[5]
[6]

FUNCTION

ANGLE

Forward

Forward 45

Backward

Back 45

[8]

Left

Left 45

[9]

Right

Right 45

Stop

[7]

[10]

[11]

VIII. FUTURE SCOPE

Voice monitoring helps the disabled person to
determine the obstacle by acknowledging with alarm
signals with slight modification in power section by
monitoring the battery voltage levels to enhance the
speed and estimate the delay for action to be taken.to
enhance the speed of the wheelchair dc motors can be
replaced by servomotors.

IX. CONCLUSION
Our paper is capable to control the
wheelchair motion fordisabled people using hand
gesture. Improvements can be made by using various
body gestures such as eye gaze, legmovement or head
movement accordingly.

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