MATLAB BASED SERVOMOTOR CONTROLLED WHEELCHAIR USING ARDUINO UNO BOARD

Abstract

This project basically deals with the new technology application in field of wheelchair. According to WHO report, 15% of world population living with physical disabilities. Physical disable people is world’s largest minority.. To help these people with low cost smart wheelchair will be boon for them. To tackle this problem In project provide the solution. Recently the open source hardware Arduino get popularity. In this project using Arduino Uno board the servomotor is controlled via MATLAB interface the direction can be controlled via the graphical user interface. In result the servomechanism will be used to control the direction of wheelchair. The people diagnosed with disability, impairment and handicap can easily utilise. Though this project focuses on the simple model of servomotor its mechanism and Arduino based programmed and controlled. It provides great insight for future technology. The first part is dealing with literature associated with wheelchair in current scenario and trends and technology used in that solution. Various condition & type of disability is also discussed. The next part is dealing with the methodology used to design the graphical interface with Arduino board. Arduino Uno board is also discussed in briefly. Now the programming part which is very essential in this project, the serial communication between COM port and Arduino uno board has been explained. The last but not least the future perspective of this project with few ideas is shown and discussed.