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 International Journal of Electronics, Electrical and Computational System
IJEECS
ISSN 2348-117X
Volume 6, Issue 4
April 2017

Voice Controlled Wheelchair

Khyati Meena Shubham Gupta Vijay Khare
B.Tech (ECE) B.Tech (ECE) Department of Electronics and
Jaypee institute of information Jaypee institute of information Communication
Technology,Noida Technology ,Noida Jaypee institute of information
Technology,Noida
ABSTRACT
This paper presents an automatic wheel chair using voice recognition. A voice controlled wheelchair makes it easy for
physically disabled person who cannot control their movements of hands. The powered wheel chair depends on motors
for locomotion and voice recognition for command. The circuit comprises of an Arduino, HM2007 Voice recognition
module and Motors. The voice recognition module recognizes the command by the user and provides the corresponding
coded data stored in the memory to Arduino Microcontroller. Arduino Microcontroller controls the locomotion
accordingly. The wheelchair also has provision for joystick for physically disabled people who can move their hands.
Keywords
Voice recognition, wheelchair, HM2007 module, DC motor,Microcontroller Arduino

INTRODUCTION
Speech recognition is a popular topic in today’s life. The applications of Speech recognition can be found
everywhere, which make our life more effective. For example the applications in the mobile phone, instead of
typing the name of the person who people want to call, people can just directly speak the name of the person
to the mobile phone, and the mobile phone will automatically call that person. If people want send some text
messages to someone, people can also speak messages to the mobile phone instead of typing. Speech
recognition is a technology that people can control the system with their speech. Instead of typing on the
keyboard or operating the buttons for the system, using speech to control system is more convenient. It can
also reduce the cost of the industry production at the same time.
Robotic wheelchairs have enhanced the manual wheelchairs by introducing locomotion controls.These
devices can ease the lives of many disabled people, particularly those with severe impairments by increasing
their range of mobility[1].These robotic enhancement will provide benefit people who cannot use hands and
legs. In this project we have developed a voice controlled wheelchair which aim to counter the above
problems. The wheelchair can be controlled using joystick as well as using voice commands. He/She just
needs to say the direction or move the button for that direction and the wheelchair moves in the desired
direction. In hardware development, we are using HM2007 voice recognition module which correlates
commands to do speech processing and give the result to Arduino which is further programmed with
respective locomotion commands[2].

Fig 1: Block daigram

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1. METHODS AND MATERIALS

There are twokey components involvedin making of the voice controlled wheel chair : hardware design and
Control. A substantial amount of work needs to be done in each of these areas in order to develop a real wheel
chair. The sections below describes the challenges involved in these areas.
1.1 Hardware Design
A good hardware design can increase the performance of the robot, and often can make each of the other
fundamental issues easier to deal with.Motored wheels have been used to traverseplain terrain. The motors of
high power supply have beenused for the movement.
The Motors are connected to Relays and L293D IC which in turn is connected to Arduino.L293D is a typical
Motor driver or Motor Driver IC which allows DC motor to drive in either direction.It works on the concept
of H-bridge. H-bridge is a circuit which allows the voltage to be flown in either direction.

Fig 2: L293D IC pin diagram

The voice recognition module is connected to RX pin of the Arduino to receive coded data stream from the
module specifying the corresponding command for direction. The locomotion is controlled using L293D and
Relay which control the motors.
1.2 Control
There are three primary components of the control problem for a voice controlled wheel chair: 1) Recording
commands 2)Recognition of commands 3) Locomotion control
1.2.1 Recording commands
Before using it, we have to record voice instructions. Each voice instruction has the maximum length of
1300ms, which ensures that most words can be recorded. Once you start recording, you can’t stop the
recording process until you finish all the 5 voice instructions recording of one group. Also, once you start
recording, the previous content of that group will be erased. In recording stage, this module doesn’t reply to
any other serial commands.The commands are recorded using serial communication with the PC using Access
Port with baud rate 9600 and Data bit 8.
The command Send: 0xaa11 is sent to access port and then command is recorded. The group 1 comprising of
5 commands is recorded.

Fig3: Recording Commands

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April 2017

1.2.2 Recognition of commands

Send command 0xAA21 to import group 1.
Send command 0xAA22 to import group 2.
Send command 0xAA23 to import group 3.
This command can recognize 5 voice instruction of a group at the same time. It could have 15 voice
instructions in 3 groups. Each time you need to import the group before it could recognize instructions in that
group. In recognition stage, this module could receive other serial commands. It will not exit the recognition
stage until you send 0xAA00, or delete that group, or begin recording instructions.
1.2.3Locomotion control
The results of the commands are imported from the voice recognition module in the Arduino and accordingly
the motion is calibrated. For example , the command Right is calibrated to rightward movement of the wheel
chair.

2. IMPLEMENTATION
The process of designingwas led forward by its implementation process.

Fig 4: Planning Implementation Flow Chart

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Fig 5: Implementation view

Fig 6: Circuit view

3.FUTURE EHANCEMENTS
i) The weight of the load for this system must be below 50 kilogram so that wheelchair only can
function properly, weight lifting capacity to be increased.
ii) Obstacle avoidance sensors can be interfaced.
iii) Home appliance control circuit can interfaced along with wheel chair control.
4. CONCLUSION
This paper described the successful implementation of a motorized wheelchair controlled by a joystick or
through voice recognition.The voice recognition system worked for most of the commands (over 95%). Only
when a word was not properly vocalized, the system did not recognize it.Overall, users reported satisfaction
with the system.
The project provides the following learning's:
1. Speech recognition module operation.
2. DC motors working and need for motor driver.
3. Interfacing Speech recognition module to Microcontroller
4. Relay working principle.

5.ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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This paper expresses deepest gratitude to Dr. R.C. Jain , Professor ,Electronics and Communication
Department, for his encouragements, useful discussion and his kind support in carrying out this paper.

6.REFERENCES
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for physically disabled persons”.
[2] S. D. Suryawanshi, J. S. Chitode, S. S. Pethakar,2013,”Voice Operated Intelligent Wheelchair.”
[3] KharkaBahadurRai ,Jeetendra Thakur, NirmalRai, Volume No.04, Issue No. 06, June 2015 ,” VOICE
CONTROLLED WHEEL CHAIR USING ARDUINO,”
[4] Simpson RC, Levine SP, IEEE Trans Neural System Rehabilitation Eng. 2000, 122-125,” Voice control of a
powered wheelchair.”

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