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International Journal of Research Publications in Engineering and Technology (ISSN No: 2454-7875)
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SOLAR POWERED ELECTRIC WHEEL CHAIR
PROF. [Link]
Department of Electrical Engineering, SKN Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pandharpur, Maharashtra
rashinkarsumit@[Link]

S.S. LOHAR
Department of Electrical Engineering, SKN Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pandharpur, Maharashtra,
shrikantlohar91@[Link]

A.L. BHOI
Department of Electrical Engineering, SKN Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pandharpur, Maharashtra
anandbhoi1994@[Link]

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Department of Electrical Engineering, SKN Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pandharpur, Maharashtra
pankaj.gavali07@[Link]

K.S. AMBEKAR
Department of Electrical Engineering, SKN Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pandharpur, Maharashtra
krushna25ambekar@[Link]

ABSTRACT the lives of many handicapped people, particularly those

This project is based on solar powered electric with severe impairments by increasing their range of
wheelchair for physically handicapped people. A user mobility. Old wheelchairs were not automatic operated.
friendly interfacing voice recognition system and The handicapped people who don’t have legs can be move
obstacle detector sensor and Keypad system has been the wheelchair by using his hands. But the people who
integrated in this solar powered wheelchair. In this don’t have hands as well as legs cannot move their wheel
way we have implemented a solar powered wheelchair chair himself. They need some other person to move their
which can be controlled using voice commands and wheel chair. But sometimes such person suffers from so
Keypad with the possibility of detecting obstacles by many problems when they didn’t get any person to move
using obstacle detector sensors. In this wheelchair their wheel chair.
Keypad is provided for handicapped person for This project “Solar Powered Electric Wheelchair” aims to
moving easily his/her hand. This project indicates overcome the above mentioned problem. In this project we
great success not only in business sector but also it are going to implement a solar wheel chair which can be
helps disabled people for better life. This project controlled manually as well as automatically .In this
contains electronic system configuration, a sensor project Keypad is provided for smooth operation of chair.
system, a mechanical model, voice recognition control By using Keypad the user can move the chair in the
and Keypad control are considered. direction it wants to move. In automatic control user just
KEYWORDS: solar panel, battery, wheels, voice need to operate the Keypad for saved destination.
recognition module and DC motors.
Abbreviations
PIC Peripheral Interface Controller
IR Infrared Radiation
DC Direct Current
CM Centimeter
RPM Revolution Per Minute

I. INTRODUCTION
Now days electric wheelchairs extend the capabilities of
traditional powered devices by introducing navigational Photograph 1.1: Wheelchair Model.
intelligence and control. This type of wheelchairs can ease

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Then the wheel chair will automatically move into the wheelchair motor is in direct contact with wheels. There
direction of saved destination by using encoder wheels. also a mechanical support is provided for balance the
This chair also provide the another feature for those chair. It uses the photovoltaic panel to generate the energy
people who don’t have hands as well as legs to control the needed to power the solar wheelchair. Given Photograph
chair. i.e. it can be operated on voice. The proposed Voice 3.2 shows the solar panel structure. The solar panel is
Recognition Based Wheelchair Operation allows physically having following specifications:
handicapped person to control the wheelchair easily 1. The power rating of the panel is 20 watt.
without the need to use hands and legs. Solar panel is 2. The length of panel is 34 cm and width of the panel is 26
provided on the top of the wheelchair for charging the cm
battery which is required for the operation of chair. When 3. Height of the panel from base is 5.5 feet.
user gives the command with respect to stored command 4. The material used is corrosion resistance.
then respective coded digital signal would be sent to the
microcontroller and then which controls the chair.

II. LITERATURE SURVEY

Now a day many physically disabled people are struggling
for their daily life. Manually operated wheelchairs do not
fulfill their requirements. The physically disabled people
who do not have hands and legs which requires one more
person to move the wheelchair. In the society there are
many old people who are not able to move from one place
to another due to their body weakness. Today wheelchairs
are having low efficiency, higher cost, requires more man
power and higher maintenance. Most significant technical
Photograph 3.1: Solar Panel.
problem in the currently available wheelchairs is accuracy
versus cost. Absence of wheelchairs for particular
3.3 CONTROLLER UNIT
disability is also a considerable big issue. Also, today
Fig. 3.1 shows the block diagram of the solar powered
systems are not suitable to monitor the surrounding
wheelchair. The block diagram consist of various
conditions and the health condition of the patient. No
components like PIC 16F877A which is the heart of this
wheelchairs are available for mentally challenged people
system which contains program to give command to the
also. One other drawback of present day wheelchairs is it
relay.
cannot sense the barriers comes in the front side and
backside of the chair.

III. SYSTEM DEVELOPEMENT

3.1 SOLAR WHEELCHAIR
The solar wheelchair is made up of BLDC motor, a battery,
wheels, solar panel. The Solar panel is a charging system
which charges the battery while in operation. The D.C.
motor forms the heart of the machine and provides the
driving force for the drives the wheels. The system is
powered by an electrical switch which completes the
circuit comprising the BLDC motor and the battery. The IR
senor is finding the path to avoid the obstacles and
machine damage. The shaft fitting mechanism with wheels
of motors.
Solar Wheelchair are based on the use of small but
powerful engine that provides enough torque to carry the
weight of person. The IR sensor is located on the base that
prevents barriers which are present in the way of
wheelchair. In most cases, the motor is situated separately
from the wheels with the help of chain but in solar Figure 3.1: Block Diagram.

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The relay is used for the controlling the motor direction
as forward and backward as per the user requirement, by
switching the relay with the help of PIC controller.
Following photograph 3.3 shows the relay controller
circuit.

Photograph 3.4: BLDC Motor.

Photograph 3.2:Relay Circuit.
SPECIFICATIONS OF BLDC MOTOR:
3.4 VOICE RECOGNITION MODULE 1. The rated speed of the motor is 150 rpm.
Voice recognition module is the speech recognition sensor. 2. The rated torque of the motor is 109 kg-Nm.
This module can control the wheelchair by the user voice 3. It has high starting torque.
commands like forward, backward, left, right and stop. We
can store command up to 80 in this module. IV. RESULT

Photograph 3.3:Voice Recognition Module V3

FEATURES:
1. Recognize maximum 7 voice commands at same time
2. Store maximum 255 records of voice
3. Group control and external group select pin
4. Auto load records when power on
5. Signature function, help to make out voice record
6. LED indicate

BRUSHLESS DC MOTOR
Photograph 4.1:Project Model
In order to make the operation more reliable, more
efficient, and less noisy the recent trend has been to use
V. CONCLUSION
brushless D.C (BLDC) motors. They are also lighter
We are going to implement a solar powered wheelchair
compared to brushed motors with the same power output.
which has various advantages. This wheelchair operates in
This article gives an illustrative introduction on the
two different modes i.e. Keypad mode and voice
working of BLDC motor.
recognition mode. Therefore on the basis of hospital

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survey and society survey we implement a best design of
wheelchair for physically handicapped people. This
Wheelchair is economical and affordable to common
people. We have also added a new technology in this
wheelchair i.e. such wheelchairs operates on the solar
system. Two infrared sensors are connected to detect the
obstacle. The running cost of this system is much lower as
compare to other systems used for the same purpose.

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